… Georgetown University v. George Washington University snowball fight, in the Georgetown Voice.
Scathing Online Schoolmarm would, though, like to correct the following:
Once GWU began to flood the hill Georgetown students were standing on, the snowball fight digressed rapidly for the Hoyas.
Fights do not digress. People digress when they leave or lose the main point they were making in an argument. The writer might have meant deteriorated… ?
February 11th, 2010 at 3:35PM
I suspect the author meant “degraded,” though even that’s not quite le mot juste.
February 11th, 2010 at 8:38PM
I think the author wanted to merge “degraded” and “regressed” and thought “digressed” split the difference.
February 11th, 2010 at 9:45PM
Interesting, Caelius. You might well be right.
February 12th, 2010 at 9:03AM
… devolved? As when order devolves into chaos?
February 12th, 2010 at 9:52AM
Digression is the better part of valor.
February 12th, 2010 at 10:35AM
Hm. Yes, adam – you might have gotten closest to what the writer had in mind.
April 21st, 2015 at 10:27AM
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