「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.

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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?




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.




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.

