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Nothing with "jen" in it can be *too* awful. ;)
I never thought about it but I actually like the sound of genitive. It sounds maybe nicer in German pronunciation with the soft 'g'. Also, it's better, in my mind, than the unnecessarily harsh sounds that appear in the words 'Accusative' and 'Dative.' 'Nominative' too appears to be more friendly than it is. What are we left with for comfort? Only poor genitive, meek and modest.
I don't have a problem with the genitive case. I just don't like the word genitive. We should call it, oh I don't know, possesstrophe or something fun and fairly indicative like that. For the full backstory, I'm the guy who gets all sensitive when he hears words that might have even an inkling of a glimmer of a negative connotation. See also The No-No List (to which this word has been added). I take pride in my reactionism. ;-)
wwld? (substutite german or Russian or any other case-based language for Latin, I suppose.)
This word just sounds dirty. Can we come up with an alternative?