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09-01-2011, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by masaegu View Post
No, it could not.

「行ったら」 cannot mean "If I had gone".

「喫茶店に行ってたら、鈴木さんに出会ってただろう。」

In casual speech, the two underlined 「い」 would often be dropped.
Interesting. It's always nice to see there's some aspect of what I'd consider a "simple" grammar point that I haven't internalized!
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