Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 16:54:51 +0200

From: Jan Strunk Strunk[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]T-ONLINE.DE

Subject: Re: "it's all good"



Dear listmembers,



I don't know whether it is very likely, but the expression "it's all good"

sounds a little bit like the German "Es ist schon gut" meaning

"it's OK", "you don't have to be sorry" and "don't mention it" to me.

"schon" means "already". I don't know whether it's possible to use

"all" instead of "already" in English. What I do know is that "all"

is used in Low Saxon to say "already".

I hope this is useful.



Jan Strunk

strunk[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]t-online.de



Jeutonne P. Brewer wrote:

The phrase can, of course, come from any one of a number of

sources. Everything doesn't originate from AAVE--or from any

other single source. As someone state, these are just tracks

or guesses about where to look.