This has just come up in my textbook, but not too sure what the meaning is.
「～」と言ってたら～
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.
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.
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.
