掲示板 Forums - Adjective (て-Form) + Verb Phrase

The only thing よくて can join to is the verb phrase/description/adjective phrase 「誰かを嫌う」, together to describe こと

Is my interpretation correct?

In that case, why use て　instead of で, i don't think it makes sense for an adjective to connect to a verb, right?

I'm not sure where you see an adjective connecting to a verb.

verbs, ii adjectives, and nouns + na adjectives, are treated differently to put them in Te form.

The ii adjective よい drops an い and adds くて to put it in the Te form よくて

The noun ファッション adds on a で to put it in the Te form ファッションで

So with:

他人が生きてもどうでもよくて

誰かを嫌うこともファッションで

I think we'd have something like:

"It doesn't matter if other people live or not, and*

Hating someone is also fashion, and

..."

(*with the Te form this "and" could also mean "so", but it is ambiguous)

But, it's very possible that I am out to lunch on this.

While we can put adjectives in Te form to link them to other adjective, that isn't the only thing we can do with Te form.

I'm not a linguist, nor an expert in Japanese, so I probably am not using the proper terminology, but the way I understand it is, one of the things I can do with Te form is:

If I have [clause A] and [clause B] I can link the clauses together by putting clause A in Te form.

So if clause A is: 猫がうれしい。 (The cat is happy)

clause B is: いぬが悲しい。(The dog is sad)

and I convert clause A to Te form　 猫がうれしくて

I can slap clause B on the end to get:

猫がうれしくていぬが悲しい. (The cat is happy *AND the dog is sad)

This AND could also mean SO, as it is ambiguous.

If our clause A was 他人が生きてもどうでもよい (It doesn't matter if other people live or not)

And we wanted to attach it to clause B: 誰かを嫌うこともファッションだ (Hating someone is also fashion)

We put clause A in Te form by making the よい into よくて, and slap clause B on the end to get:

他人が生きてもどうでもよくて

誰かを嫌うこともファッションだ

"It doesn't matter if other people live or not AND Hating someone is also fashion"

And if we want to attach another clause C on the end we can convert ファッション into Te form to get:

他人が生きてもどうでもよくて

誰かを嫌うこともファッションで

[clause C]

"It doesn't matter if other people live or not AND Hating someone is also fashion AND [clause C]"

Again, this is the way I understand it, but it is very possible I am wrong here.