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This has just come up in my textbook, but not too sure what the meaning is.

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    「～」と言ってたら～
    
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I can see that it is a 'te' conjugation of 言う, but then followed by the
conditional 'tara'. I've not before seen such a 'double conjugation' and my
grammar dictionary is as useless as ever!

Is it simply the same as 言ったら, or is it slightly different?
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「言ってたら」What is the meaning behind the "te-tara" form?
言ってたら＝言っていたら — Dropping the い from いる in continuous forms is extremely common
in spoken Japanese. 話している→話してる 来ています→来てます 報告していました→報告してました などなどなど

そんなこと **言ってたら** 怒られるぜ。"If you go around saying things like that/talking like
that, you're going to get in trouble."

It's the conditional form of the continuous form of 言う using いる.
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In addition to Marc Adler's explanation:

～と言ってたら is used as subjunctive past perfect. For example:

> あの[時]{とき}、あなたが好きと **言ってたら** 、[今頃]{いまごろ}私たちは[結婚]{けっこん}していただろう。  
>  -- If I had said "I love you" at that time, we would be married now.

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言ったら means "if I said(say)" or "I said ～ and then".

For example:

> もし私がアメリカに行きたいと **言ったら** 、あなたは[反対]{はんたい}する?  
>  -- If I said(say) "I want to go to the U.S", would(will) you oppose?

and

> 私がアメリカに行きたいと **言ったら** 、彼は[怒]{おこ}った。  
>  -- I said "I want to go to the U.S", and then he got angry.
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