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What does it mean when someone responds or replies in an elliptical or orthogonal way? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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Someone was very lightly chiding me for saying Shia Leboef looked a very hard 39 remarking that they were 38 and it reflected badly on them.

Then I replied Shia sort of resembled Hunter Biden...

I cant trace my mental stack that led to that formulation

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[–] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

An elliptical response is a concise utterance that omits words or phrases that are already understood from the context. It relies on the listener or reader to fill in the missing information.

https://exercisepick.com/what-are-elliptical-responses/

I'm not sure about orthogonal responses.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I thought it was more eccentric but elliptical is something else i prefer to do to boil down a more complex response's points inwant based on that so good to know 😬