[Poll] What *are* vords?

[ReneZ]

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.

Consensus would most certainly be achieved if the resolved plain text warrants it.

This means, a consistent mapping leading to meaningful text in some known language of the time.

It would be even better if any of the following were true:
- the resulting text is also known from other sources
- the mapping of single characters to words is based on some simple rule.

If the plain text is good enough, these are not even necessary.

EDIT: when responding, I should also answer the polls:

Poll 1: I don't know.
I would favour (b) slightly above the other two.

Poll 2: Again I don't know, but (also again) some appear more interesting than others
Null characters or strokes: I could see that
Null words: not really, but if so, then position-based (e.g. right half of each line)
Transposition: no
Indexed codebook: no
Auxiliary devices: no
Something else: yes.