Spoken English does by differing where the stress is placed in the word. That doesn’t make it into written English, however.

It used to be fully inflected (what you want).

It's easier to inflect everything before your lexicon grows to 500,000 words. Just saying. In the time that we spent writing these comments, English stole-or-invented 15 more words, none of them regular enough that their inflection could be rule-derived.

How about we include or omit the commas as a way of distinguishing?