"That's How I Roll" by Ginny Donaldson

Also Britney Spears is dealing with the "How I Roll"-Phrase

In the concept essay "That's How I Roll" by Ginny Donaldson it is talking about the development of phrases and common speeches. The author is bringing up the example of her instructor to think about the phrase “That’s how I roll”. She did her research online and she noticed that each day the amount of input increased every day. With the help of this example she is explaining that these phrases are used to simplify the proper English and let it sound “cool or less complicated” (p.51). By trying to find the origin of the slang we are more and more likely to use, she found out that some phrases or slang words stick while others cannot resist. We are developing the phrases but we still let the people decide if the word will exist the next day or not. There exists principles how they will be known as sticky but these are not a common rule. Sometimes they just exist without any reason, they are not less important than others with an easily found explanation about their origin.  The audience is more for the folk to illustrate them where our slang English is coming from and how it gets developed.

I can find myself as the author of this text. It is often that I am fascinated and interested in the origin of words. Just looking at the sequence of the letters is already curious. How cool is it that everybody understands what the five letters “bread” means. Also playing with words, joking around and developing new phrases, this can still verbalize in proper English. It is fun creating new words and the people understand what you want to say. It makes your language unique.