Abstract: | In this linguistically-philological essay, the author familiarizes the reader with lexical
richness of the Polish language. Designing a crossword containing 100 letters, according to the scrabble rules, he conducts an analysis of earlier masterly constellations (the
record in 2006 was 3973) in order to go beyond the limits of 400 points, which he
forecasted in “Teksty Drugie” in 1990. So as to get the record results, the author was
forced to figure out the strategy of filigrene (‘granulations’), consisting in adding a letter
after the letter of extension (e.g. BA, BAR, BARĆ or AR, ARA, ARAK) as well as using the
technique of a combination of three 15-letter with 10-letter as well as 8-letter words to
avoid any “useless” (non-functional) word. The basis of the game is the exploitation of
all contemporary dictionaries and infrequent words (e.g. “zadosyćuczyńmyż”, it being
incredible for most of the Poles). |