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Jan Murphy

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"Throw the cow over the fence some hay now" is still parse-able if you treat it like you would "throw the stallion in the south paddock some hay now", where the "over the fence" is a locative for the animal.

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chroma's avatar chroma @chromatographic.bsky.social
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Good argument, but in the vernacular of this usage "over the fence" is where/how you are throwing the hay! And it's not that it's unintelligible but most Stamdard English speakers will have to take a moment to parse it.

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