「言ってたら」What is the meaning behind the "te-tara" form? This has just come up in my textbook, but not too sure what the meaning is. I can see that it is a 'te' conjugation of , 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 , or is it slightly different?

— Dropping the from in continuous forms is extremely common in spoken Japanese. → → →

**** "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 using .