"If there was a man that you could find a shared language with, it was Faisal Husseini, " Benvenisti told Israeli radio.

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Thanks to a shared language, it is easy for Britons to take credit for America's successes (for instance, Hollywood films that feature one or two British stars), while decrying American excesses.

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This is only possible with a shared language.

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The relationship as it exists now is catching up with this reality, even if differences between the U.S. and Britain are obscured by a gauze of nostalgia and the deceptive fraternity borne of language and a shared cultural heritage.

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Their alignment should be driven by a common language, shared goals, metrics, systems and team members.

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As the building blocks of language, they let us articulate our experiences through a shared system of meaning-making.

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Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.

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"You are working very closely with people from a different culture, different language, different part of the world but you build common bonds around shared priorities, " Cotton said.

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