[Poll] What *are* vords?

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Although a mapping of vords to single letters/phonemes is a tempting guess for me, as it would resolve the infamous reduplication patterns w/ these plaintext languages, the amount of resulting text would be severely shortened to the point I'd question if it the knowledge condensed would even be useful and worth writing down with such a complex cipher. I feel that an n-gram mapping would be so much practical for the authors - assuming they wrote the MS to recall or pass down knowledge. Whole words, even with a codebook, are incompatible with a few of the stats gathered so far I believe, even though TTR and word entropy would seem to back it up.

These would be my choices if I had to guess within the hypotheses of the 2nd Poll.

☑ Dummy (null) characters or strokes
☑ Dummy (null) words
☐ Transposition within words
☐ Transposition within lines
☐ Indexed codebook (not just for a minority of words, but for the bulk of text)
☑ State or context-dependent encoding
☑ Auxiliary devices for encoding (wheels, matrices)

The seemingly varying structure and frequency of vords, the word-order patterns and other phenomena suggest to me that there's a lot of dummy words and or characters involved - possibly generated through an "auto-copying" mechanism as suggested by many researchers.