随便举个例子，看看言的“学术研究”有多严谨：

言："常用汉语词汇中的语音语意定义字只有数千个（三千个左右），而英文中有十几万个，普通人能掌握的就有近十万个（美国高中毕业生的平均词汇量是五到六万），"

莎士比亚一生才掌握了二万九千个单词（见下），不知言这荒唐离谱的数字从哪里来的。数据尚如此不可信，你还可以相信他其他什么呢？

Shakespeare had an extensive vocabulary. While most English speakers can boast of a 4000-word vocabulary, Shakespeare's vocabulary spanned over 29000 words. In fact, Shakespeare coined many of the terms that are now used in everyday speech. Shakespeare created more than 1700 new words that were unknown in medieval England. You will be surprised to know that words like amazement, gloomy, zany, and equivocal were first coined by Shakespeare. Read some beautifully worded quotes from some of his famous plays: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet and King Lear.

http://quotations.about.com/b/2006/04/22/shakespeare-had-some-vocabulary.htm