If you said either one to me I would probably not know the difference. Unless you are a complete mumble mouth muthauker.

If you put emphasis on the final letter as kiwuk suggested it matters. If you want to be lazy and let it flow into one, it doesn't matter so much.
If I say any of these in my 'Queen's English' voice there's a big difference.
In Aussie drawl it dusnmadasomuch.

Gedadogupya!

This pronunciation - /las tyear/ - is called 'connected speech' and all non-brain damaged English speakers use it, American or no. Check out the BBC's learning English videos; according to them, the British use this too. It is common in all spoken English. And the British even use the schwa sound!!! OMG!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/progs/pro...

(Of course, what does the BBC know about spoken English?)

If you speak like another poster here suggests, then you will sound either like a pedant, a moron, or a Chinese student trying to speak English and pronouncing every freaking letter (throw in non-native intonation for good measure).

Did you actually check out the BBC website? These people are speaking RP, "high English", and they STILL use connected speech.

Of course this is the typical response of the pedant, who ignores the way language actually functions in an attempt to shape the linguistic world according to his own lights. I will guarantee that even Oxbridge grads do not speak the way you seem to think they do. Giving full emphasis to the stop at the end of every word would make your speech sound clipped, like some bizarre voice synthesizer. IF that is the sort of preposterous English you actually want to speak, for whatever unfathomable reason, then more power to you.

However, only computers, pedants and morons speak this way. It is not a matter of "standards", has nothing to do with chewing gum, etc. It is certainly NOT good English to pronounce every letter when you speak. What twaddle.

MushMouth?

I'm sorry but it just really hacks me off when people start making these little fallacies in the English language.

"Wanna" "'c'mon" "gonna"... I hate this kind of mushmouthed mumbling horse sh*t.

Is it so hard to speak like an educated person if you're educated? And if you're not, can't you pretend?

We have enough contractions already to facilitate ease of speech.

Don't start making up new sh*t especially when it isn't even your mother tongue.

I suck at Chinese, I admit that, so I don't purport to alter the language, I'm constantly apologizing for how sh*t I am at it.

You should do the same of maybe try shutting the f*** up.

OP, 'connected speech' and 'mush-mouthed'-ness (a word?) are not the same thing. Check out the BBC, or this website:

http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/case-studies/received-pronuncia...

Scholars of the English language have no issue with 'connected speech'. It is simply the way people speak. Even educated people do it and are not ashamed.

I would agree with the above post on one point: one should exercise care in expressing oneself. A good place to begin is to eschew profanity, and instead find a more precise and appropriate word. English has lots of words that you can use express your ideas, without resorting to profane expressions.

No sh*t!

A personal attack denotes that one knows who one is addressing.

There's nothing personal about an online, public forum unless one takes the initiative to stalk the person they are interacting with.

Nothing personal about it, f***face.

Obviously I'm joking, you think I take this sh*t seriously, you moustachioed pig f-er?

hahahaha

Rerax, guy.

You should agree with me more often, I'm always right.

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