(Kap dochka) Khorosh gus'

[Jules Levin]

At 11:25 AM 1/7/2007, you wrote:
>Alina Israeli wrote:
>
>>No, õîðîø ãóñü is an ironic statement: some X.


I wonder what the origin is?
Consider a German (actually I know it from 
Yiddish) 'ganz gut', which means both
'quite good' and 'the goose [is] good...'
Could the Russian have originated in some cross-language joke?
Jules Levin

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