隨便舉個例子，看看言的“學術研究”有多嚴謹：

言："常用漢語詞彙中的語音語意定義字只有數千個（三千個左右），而英文中有十幾萬個，普通人能掌握的就有近十萬個（美國高中畢業生的平均詞彙量是五到六萬），"

莎士比亞一生才掌握了二萬九千個單詞（見下），不知言這荒唐離譜的數字從哪裡來的。數據尚如此不可信，你還可以相信他其他什麼呢？

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