Learn English – Is it wrong to say “I just wanted to have said something”

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Suppose that you are in a situation that you must provide a comment or say something, but actually you don't know what you should say. Finally, you come up with something which strikes the lister as complex, leading to a lengthy questions and answers between you and that person.

Now, suppose you want to imply "It wasn't well thought of comment and let's stop this topic"

I just wanted to have said something.

Is that grammatically right? I see zero result for "just wanted to have said" or almost zero for "wanted to have said" which make feel insecure about this sentence.

Best Answer

You could say:

I hadn't really thought it through completely.

If you want to add words to the effect that you were expected to say something:

Even so, I wanted to offer it as something that merited further discussion.

If you say either

I wanted to say something.

or

I wanted to have said something.

the implication is that you felt it was better to say anything, no matter how half-baked, than to say nothing.

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