If you speak about it publicly
Hello.
My company is involved in rather dubious machinations (it’s just made-up though 
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My friend tells me:
Don’t speak about it, if you speak about it you will draw even more attention to it.
—> clearly this is a action and result type of sentence.
Could I say: If you speak about it publicly you are drawing even more attention to it.
—> how is the meaning any different?
If you spoke about it, you would draw even more attention to it.
Or
or if you spoke about it you would be drawing even more attention to it.
Thanka for he help
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In US English, you'd generally say:
"Don't talk about it."
"And if you talk about it publicly, you'll bring the house down on yourself."
0None of the given sentences would be used, because they're too obvious. Of course, if you speak about something controversial, you'll draw (more) attention to it. This goes without saying. Saying something this obvious would be like hitting the listener over the head with it.
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