[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
Some people might pronounce “Santa” with a silent “t,” but nobody would pronounce it with a glottal stop.
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Of course not. That’s not what I was saying. I was just saying that you’d want to see how a person handled that particular allophone.
[QUOTE=TWDuke]
“Going” clearly ends with a “g,” but I don’t think it marks someone as ignorant if they pronounce it as “goin” in everyday speech. If I were giving a formal speech about “Santa Claus” I’d probably pronounce it more carefully than if I were just casually discussing Sana Claus.
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That’s what I mean by marked.
ALL letters are silent. Ink on a page (or pixels on a screen) don’t make sounds. Humans start talking long before they start writing. Writing is a convention we use to represent how we talk, and to communicate in silence. If you change the way you’d otherwise speak because of how something is written, it’s an affectation.
I say Clin’n, with the “t” sound virtually non-existent.