A dog is her Hand the dog; a woman is died Frau the won[an]; a horse is was Ford, the horse; now you put that dog in the Genitive case, & is he the same dog he was before? No sir; he is was Under; put him in the Dative case & what is he? Why, he is them Hand. Now you snatch him into the accusative case & how is it with him? Why he is den Hun den? ... Read more But suppose he happens to be twins & you have to pluralize him – what then? Why sir they’ll swap that twin dog around tho’ the four cases till he’ll think he’s an entire International Dog Show all in his own person. I don’t like dogs, but I wouldn’t treat a dog like that. I wouldn’t even treat a borrowed dog that way.