BBC Learning English The English We Speak 25th January 2011 Tastic

Finn: Wang Fei: Finn: Welcome to the slang-tastic programme, The English We Speak. Hello I'm Wang Fei. This is our word-tastic programme where you learn the latest English-tastic phrases. Yes erm We hope you have a learning-tastic time with us today Finn, sorry for interrupting you, but why do you keep adding 'tastic' to all these words? Sorry Wang Fei, I should have said. Tastic is our new word, or should I say, new suffix, for the day. A suffix is something you add onto the end of another word to change the meaning. That's right. So when we add tastic, what does that mean? Well, it's kind of related to the word fantastic. When you add tastic to a word, for example slang, it means 'fantastic in terms of slang'. So English-tastic means 'fantastic in terms of English'. And learning-tastic means fantastic in terms of learning? It does, absolutely. Let's hear a couple more examples.

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A: Did you hear Britney's new song? B: Yes. It's pop-tastic! I love it. A: Did you have a good time yesterday? B: It was so much fun. Fun-tastic! Ha ha.

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Wang Fei: Finn:

Wow, very good examples. So can I say example-tastic? Example-tastic, you can! Now, this way of making new words is very informal it comes from pop culture so you probably wouldn't see it in a business letter. So, it's not business-tastic?! It's not business-tastic. Not really, unless you work in an industry like fashion or pop music. Anyway, I think it's time to tell our listeners about our website. Yes, and our web-tastic site is www.bbclearningenglish.com! You can learn English for free, and even download programmes to your mp3 player. Yes, it's download-tastic! Time to go, now. Bye! Bye!

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