…widespread use of letter case is a fairly recent development), most common doesn't mean best - how the "market share" of languages and writing systems evolves is a more complex topic (Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World is a good book). That means looking at and comparing with other examples is often useful. It's a little like the reason you want to learn more than one programming language…
Nicholas Ostler 的《世界语言史：词语帝国》（Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World）是一段透过语言势力的扩张、收缩和竞争来审视人类历史的旅程。非常值得一读。
Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World is a journey through human history as seen through a lense of expanding, contracting and competing languages spheres. Well worth a read.
这篇文章的作者写过一本非常有趣的书，探讨语言与帝国之间的联系，叫《词语帝国》（Empires of the Word）。https://www.amazon.com/Empires-Word-Language-History-World/d... 读到语言是如何比孕育它的文化活得更久，真的很有意思。当然首先想到的是拉丁语，但正如书中所探讨的那样……
The author of this article wrote a very interesting book about the connection between language and empire, "Empires of the Word". https://www.amazon.com/Empires-Word-Language-History-World/d... It is really interesting to read about how languages outlast their cultures. Latin comes to mind of course, but as the book discusses…
关于语言这个主题，你能推荐一本能媲美 Nicholas Ostler 的《词语帝国》、但更近期的书吗？我非常喜欢这本书，但它现在已经出版 20 多年了。我很好奇里面有多少信息现在已经过时了。
would you recommend a more recent book comparable to "Empires of the Word" by Nicholas Ostler on the subject of languages ? I am really enjoying the book, but it's over 20 years old at this point. I wonder how much of the information is out of date now.
…you. Not quite so relevant to startups working on a product, but some good concepts nonetheless. A good summary is probably just as good as reading the book, as the core concepts are fairly simple. * Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World: http://amzn.to/tVvltK the history of the world as seen through languages. * The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East: http://amzn.to/spQCF7 - a…
……字母大小写的广泛使用是相当晚近的发展），最常见的并不意味着就是最好的——语言和文字系统的“市场份额”是如何演变的，是一个更为复杂的话题（Nicholas Ostler 的《世界语言史：词语帝国》是一本好书）。这意味着去观察并与其他范例进行比较通常很有用。这有点像你为什么要学习不止一种编程语言……
…widespread use of letter case is a fairly recent development), most common doesn't mean best - how the "market share" of languages and writing systems evolves is a more complex topic (Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World is a good book). That means looking at and comparing with other examples is often useful. It's a little like the reason you want to learn more than one programming language…
Nicholas Ostler 的《世界语言史：词语帝国》（Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World）是一段透过语言势力的扩张、收缩和竞争来审视人类历史的旅程。非常值得一读。
Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World is a journey through human history as seen through a lense of expanding, contracting and competing languages spheres. Well worth a read.
这篇文章的作者写过一本非常有趣的书，探讨语言与帝国之间的联系，叫《词语帝国》（Empires of the Word）。https://www.amazon.com/Empires-Word-Language-History-World/d... 读到语言是如何比孕育它的文化活得更久，真的很有意思。当然首先想到的是拉丁语，但正如书中所探讨的那样……
The author of this article wrote a very interesting book about the connection between language and empire, "Empires of the Word". https://www.amazon.com/Empires-Word-Language-History-World/d... It is really interesting to read about how languages outlast their cultures. Latin comes to mind of course, but as the book discusses…
关于语言这个主题，你能推荐一本能媲美 Nicholas Ostler 的《词语帝国》、但更近期的书吗？我非常喜欢这本书，但它现在已经出版 20 多年了。我很好奇里面有多少信息现在已经过时了。
would you recommend a more recent book comparable to "Empires of the Word" by Nicholas Ostler on the subject of languages ? I am really enjoying the book, but it's over 20 years old at this point. I wonder how much of the information is out of date now.
……给你。虽然对做产品的创业公司来说没那么相关，但依然包含了一些很好的概念。读一份好的摘要可能就和通读全书差不多，因为核心概念其实相当简单。* 《世界语言史：词语帝国》：http://amzn.to/tVvltK 透过语言看世界历史。* 《漫长的分流：伊斯兰法如何阻碍了中东的发展》：http://amzn.to/spQCF7 ——一本……
…you. Not quite so relevant to startups working on a product, but some good concepts nonetheless. A good summary is probably just as good as reading the book, as the core concepts are fairly simple. * Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World: http://amzn.to/tVvltK the history of the world as seen through languages. * The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East: http://amzn.to/spQCF7 - a…
我很喜欢《词语帝国》，会去看看你推荐的另一本书的。
I enjoyed Empires of the Word, will have a look at the other book you recommend.