Capitalization helps a lot, but semantic determinatives are obviously the way the language was meant to be written. No way of telling the mea心ning羊otherwise!

My kids, who are nerdy high school freshmen, trot this one out periodically and I have to say that it also helped when I learned, aged 52, that “buffalo” can be a verb. We need a more 文言 approach to parts of speech, honestly. Anything can be a verb if you verb it clearly enough.