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.
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.