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Here's the sentence:

> 「だから昨日も言ったろ、ボクもキミも怒られるタイプなんだって。」

だから as 'therefore' doesn't really work here so I'm going for "that's why".
However, I think 言ったろ means "did I not say". Putting it together I get

> That's why, did I not say yesterday that both you and me are the type who
> get told off.

But to make that work in English I need the comma or a pause for thought after
"that's why" otherwise I get something non-grammatical.

Is the sentence grammatical in Japanese or is a pause needed like my English
translation, or is my translation just wrong? Is there a better way to think
about だから and 言ったろ?
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Understanding だから...言ったろ
だから is sometimes used at the beginning of a sentence when the speaker is
trying to emphasize something already said. I've heard it said to me in this
usage as "だ〜か〜ら〜". I think you could translate this usage as "Like I said..."

To me, here the combination of だから plus 言ったろ（言っただろう） gives a strong feeling
that the speaker is annoyed with the other person.
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“だから言ったじゃないの” is a popular phrase among today’s elderlies as it became a hit
song with the same title, followed by “男の言葉に騙されて - (You are too stupid) to be
cheated by a man's sweet talk,” which was sung by Keiko Matsuyama, and
released in 1958.

In this case, だから does not necessarily mean “because” and “that why” as a
conjunctive.

As @Choco advised, “だから” here works as the emphasis of the ensuing statement,
“ボクもキミも怒られるタイプなんだって.”

I would translate the quote as: “Remember, I told you yesterday that both of
us are the type of getting easily scolded .” “Well (you see), I told you
yesterday that both of us are the type of always being reprimanded.”
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