 to my most intimate friend?
&gt;
&gt;Other languages have a simple solution to such problems:
&gt;accents and umlauts.
&gt;
&gt;German and English have similar systems of sound changes
&gt;in verb tenses and in nouns derived from verbs.  The German
&gt;speakers solved their problem by adding "umlauts" (literally
&gt;"sound changes") represented by two dots above the vowel.
&gt;
&gt;Russian has many words with different meanings that differ
&gt;in accent, but not in the traditional spelling.  An example
&gt