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It seems the native speakers often use this sentence 食べて飲みたい to mean _I want
to eat and drink_ , but I think it should be considered _I eat and want to
drink_. When I say that, I will use 食べたり飲んだりしたい. So how does 食べて飲みたい work? It
can be seen by me as 食べる+飲みたい, but hardly as 食べて飲む+たい.
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How does this sentence 食べて飲みたい work?
It might seem counterintuitive to use this kind of grammatical construction,
but wording it like this implies that you want to do the two actions together
or at the same time. You can certainly say 食べたり飲んだりしたい, but it has the
implication of not necessarily doing them at the same time. This expression
might be more appropriate if you were talking about, for example, traveling.

メキシコに行って、食べたり飲んだりをしたいです。

"I want to go to Mexico and eat and drink."
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食べて飲みたい sounds a bit informal to me, unless what you want to do is perform the
two actions of 食べる and 飲む one after the other in that order. If that’s not
what you mean and you want to be engaged in one activity where eating and
drinking are involved, it would be much more natural to say 食べたり飲んだりしたい as you
suggest.

The `V1-て V2-たい` construction sounds completely natural when the order of V1
and V2 is important. This also includes cases where the association with て
indicates method or attendant circumstances.

> 居酒屋に行って飲みたい。[sequential actions / means]

> 学校に行って勉強したい。[means]

> 新しい服を着て出かけたい。[attendant circumstances]

Rephrasing these with `V1-たり V2-たりしたい` would change their meanings.

While it may not be impossible for たい to be associated with only V2 in some
contexts, that is much less likely. In most cases, たい works on the whole of
`V1-て V2`. The semantic link between V1 and V2 tends to be stronger.

Even in the case of 食べて飲みたい, where the two verbs are rather independent from
each other, most people would still understand it as ［食べて飲み］たい unless context
strongly suggests otherwise. I cannot think of a good example for such
contexts.

If V1 is not part of your desire but something you already plan to do, then
you should probably consider some other way to say it. For example, the
following two sentences mean two different things.

> 近くまで行って会いたい。
>
> 近くまで行くので会いたい。
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