On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Lieven <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:

{DoDaj vItlh law' wab Do vItlh puS.}
"The speed is higher than the speed of sound"

{DoDaj law' law' wab Do law' puS.}
"His speeds are more than the sound's speeds"

I could have sworn that there was some usage of {law'} used with something that couldn't be counted, in the sense of "a lot of", but I'm blanking on it at the moment.

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:40 AM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:

Using {vItlh} is a good choice, but isn't that only to be used with regards to things such as speed, destruction etc ?

What I'm trying to say is, if I want to say "january has more days than february", can I use the {vItlh} ? Can I say..

{jar wa' jajmey vItlh law' jar cha' jajmey vItlh puS} ?

The gloss of {vItlh} is "be high, great (in quantity, size, intensity)". It seems to be used for things that can be measured but not really counted, like {Do}, though we only have a few examples of it. It feels weird to use with {jajmey}. It feels like it would be right to use with something like {jajmey mI'} "the number of days", though that's kind of wordy.

In any case, I don't see why you couldn't use {law'} in the law'-puS construction. Stylistically you might not want to use {law'} twice in a row, but that's the only argument against it that I can think of.