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This is taken from one of the mindless pop songs I shouldn't even be listening
to:

> なんてったって ラッキー！

I know what なんて and ラッキー mean, of course, but I can't figure out in a way that
makes sense to me what the contracted forms after なんて are. Any help?
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slang て-form colloquial-language contractions song-lyrics
Colloquial Contraction Confusion
In this case, I believe that ったって is a reduction of 言ったって, which combined with
なんて likely means roughly "no matter what I say/you say/etc."
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Are you sure it's a contraction and not 達て, which would meant it was something
they wished for, and they thought the person was lucky? With the little つ in
there to represent how it was said?
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