Oh! those crazy tangents!

Today my thoughts took off on a tangent and kept me thinking about many things at once. Many a tangent to be precise. So, to bring back focus I thought it prudent to understand tangent – literally.Use of Tangent in speech and what does it conveyIn Literary terms tangent means“asubjectoractivitythat is different from the one you aretalkingabout or doing:”So, when one digresses from the subject and keeps moving away one is taking the conversation”off-tangent”Geometrically speaking the tangent just touches the curved surface on just one ...