en, we must be able to understand it when all are written as
"tort". Basically all homophones would become additional homonyms. The
English dictionary would have many fewer main entries, but a correspondingly
greater average rate of secondary level "meanings" per main entry. 

	.	Nevertheless, you make a relevant point in mentioning vocal
inflections, since, in English, they are not indicated in writing. On the
other hand, I wonder whether spelling differences in a phonetic system could
be used to indicate 