The person you're replying to said phoneme, suggesting awareness of the phonetic/phonemic distinction. > apparently even linguists have to learn subsets of IPA

The person you're replying to said phoneme, suggesting awareness of the phonetic/phonemic distinction. > apparently even linguists have to learn subsets of IPA in order to properly pronounce phonemes in different languages I don't actually understand what you mean by this clause, but if we strip some words, "linguists learn subsets of IPA in order to properly pronounce phonemes in different languages" is in fact exactly what IPA is for.