In my experience it’s only Americans who say “on accident” 
I haven’t been playing much since i moved last month and disturbed my routine and ive been working evenings which is when i used to play most… sat down to play for a bit last night and when i was making dinner shortly after, i discovered it was 1am lol. I need to get back to working on my SBL courses and yousician has some good new songs!
I remember people saying this in grade school. To be fair it’s kind of an outlier. One of those things like “regardless” and there being no such word as irregardless.
Well, “unlockable” means both “able to be unlocked” and “not able to be locked” so english is kind of silly 
Reading about ambiguous trimorphemic words is just one of the reasons i never get anything done on the weekend 
I thought it was “ by accident on purpose “
Thanks, of course! Now that I read it some pathway in my brain has been re-activated and my memory agrees, “By accident” sounds much better (because it’s the way it is ingrained, not because there is some deep logic in the choice of the words by Vs on) 
I remember having a conversation / argument with a coworker about flammable vs inflammable
How can they mean the same thing? They do, but it’s confusing. English is rubbish for rules of grammar. Give me German anytime for logical construction
Yeah. Really, the US should have gone with German or French. Reasonably sized contingents wanted to do both at the time. English is kind of a terrible hot mess of a language.
On accident is definitely wrong.
The opposite is by design, you would never say on design. By design, by accident.
signed a writer who has had too many copy editors
Flammable and inflammable do not mean the same thing.
Something that is flammable you have to apply flame to.
Something that is inflammable can spontaneously combust.
French is not any better 
they should have gone with Spanish 
I love spanish, I always wonder why they never got around to coming up with a word for “toe” but they have a word for someone who is cold all the time 
Yeah Spanish seems great from the little I know. You can’t live in California without picking up at least a little
+1
Back to the OP question, I put in a minimum of 1.5 hours of playing per day, alternating between working through course lessons, running scales and arpeggios, and just playing whatever comes to mind.
You are definitively correct here, sir. It was accidental, it happened accidentally, an accident.
With purpose, purposefully, on purpose.
English is a really easy language to murder-my sore spots with it are irregardless (previously covered here), and the word that makes me cringe-mindset.
In the words of my 7th grade English teacher…
" must is. Must ain’t don’t sound right."
The point of this @Wombat-metal is the use of ‘in’ as a prefix in English. With some words the use of ‘in’ means that something is not i.e. incoherent (not coherent), incapable (not capable). So my colleague was using the word inflammable to mean it wouldn’t burn on a bonfire (about a building material) when they meant non flammable.
English is confusing and there are so many exceptions that it’s easy to get it wrong.
I feel like a lot of things in English went down like this…
Colonial founders lead guy- “OK dudes, F’ those mainland British, how can we say/do things different or opposite”
Colonial dude - “We can swap re for er on words like centre”
Colonists - “Hells yes”
Other Colonial dude - “Anyone else think its dumb how we say vitamins and aluminium?”
Colonists - “Hells yes”
Colonial founders lead guy ’ “Great start guys, next round’s on me”
Colonists ’ “Hells yes”
yadda, yadda, yadda
Speaking of practice, this morning I decide to revisit Josh’s lesson on Octaves (Mod 13-1 I believe) since it is a good warmup-practice and I hadn’t done it in a long time.
Holy hell something happened to my brain this morning! I was mis-hitting all over the place. After 30 minutes of shaking my head (and fists) I decided my bass maybe had a headache so I set her back down for a nap.
Will try again this afternoon after we both have had a nap.
I would blame it on “Monday” but I am retired so that excuse doesn’t really apply.
I need to put an octave exercise back into rotation more often.
English is confusing, not arguing that.
The root of in on the one hand is en, meaning into, like encroach, or enflame.
Onthe other hand, in has the root of un, meaning not, as in unimportant
Somewhere along the way we started pronouncing en and un as in. So there is logic there.
The ones that get me are things like cake and pie. A few hundred years ago the two words were synonyms, which gives us things like Boston Cream Pie (which is cake), and Cheesecake (which is a pie)
More truth in that than you know, though it was the opposite way around. Some words the Brits middle/high class changed the pronunciation on so they would sound smarter than the uneducated masses, and it became the standard in Britain, and never crossed to America because we were eff that with sounding cultured.
Now we get onto a favourite story, Jaffa cakes lawsuit vs the UK government regarding tax.
Folks, can we please keep it on track or move the whole English language discussion to another thread in the non-bass related section?
It’s getting messy here.
