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Between 1850 and 1920 or so, the frequencies of regress, regressive, and retrogressive in published writing seem to have been fairly close, after which regress and (especially) regressive took off; but retrogress has been the least common of the four forms since at least 1840, and in recent decades it has become very rare indeed.
Okay, so I know when to "but I digress"; I use it when I'm talking about something and then stray off topic and talk about something else, so in order to get back to the topic, I say "but I digress". But the dictionary says that digress , a verb, means "to stray off of something, to wander from a path, or to turn aside, etc.".
Regress could work, but if you digress, then it's closer to deviate in its use in this sense. So I don't think there is a single word for un-digress in this context.
What are the meanings of 'oppress', 'repress' and 'suppress'? Does it matter between Help Help! I'm being oppressed! and Help! Help! I'm being repressed!?
In all of these instances, the phrase containing "but I digress" occurs in the context of an author who has caught himself going off on a tangent from the main point of the discussion. The observation comes after the fact of having digressed already and of continuing (at least until the moment of making the observation) to digress.
I'd not use 'anyway', 'but I digress' or 'enough of that' in most contexts, as perhaps also hinting that the digression (which might have been at least as important as the main topic) was rather capricious. Unless I'm admitting I had been being a little self-indulgent. And I feel 'back to topic' has a flavour of 'I tend to be a little abstracted'.
Digress or obfuscate, pivot or approach avoidance all imply deliberate intent, which is in no way clear in the example. (Pragmatic topic loss is not something I've heard of, or follow.) The given answers might be useless but that can't be determined from the examples.
You can add "I digress" after a rant, but I would not usually do it. If you do it, it would cause everyone to burst out laughing. The effect is one of a form of bathos - a figure of speech, invariably humorous, in which the tone of the speaker suddenly changes from serious to mundane.
I hope this is the correct StackExchange to ask a question like this. For a scientific text (in computer science), which is the correct way of expressing angles (e.g. the yaw, pitch and roll angle...
Dissent from vs concur with, where each preposition has a statement or judgement as object. This is a legal term; US Supreme Court decisions, for instance, may be concurring opinions (voting for the majority) or dissenting opinions (voting for the minority).