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Funny you mention that, lampoon.
I rewrote that line when my meandering mind drifted back to a Linguistics class I took at Cal State Fullerton my first semester there (fall of 1978). I had little interest in linguistics at that point (I later took two and a half years of Greek and one course in Hebrew, so it actually helped), but when I registered my first semester at CSUF there were almost no classes left available to me. So I took what was left, including Linguistics 101.
Anyway, that's where I learned about phonemes. So if I'm a po' example of a phonemic phenom, that's the reason.