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Old 11th February 2014, 03:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Larien View Post
As opposed to.



I think Greatful days is deliberate. The town I live in has the tagline of "heartful city," which doesn't make since to a native speaker, but I can also see what they were getting at: they assumed that the suffix -ful means "full of," so they were going for the idea that their city is "full of heart." So..."days full of greatness"? Having said that, there are a lot of silly Japangrishisms, too...
Heartful does make sense
And I always equated Greatful days to something like the difference between go and went. Greatful and goed are both more logical but English doesn't want everything regular.
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