Indeed, the concept of collaborative e-commerce makes sense only if applications have a common language.

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As this study shows, we don't have a common language.

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This novel, Emmanuel Darley's second, is the story of an exclusive love that turns into a nightmare, perhaps because the protagonists have no common language: the boy is enclosed in the simplicity of his own world, the little girl only laughs or cries, and the police speak only the language of the law.

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After being out in the world building companies and businesses for 30 years, I have to say that experience says the MBA degree may help establish a common language among young managers.

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But Kunjamon is from a new and fast growing community from south India who have come quickly in large numbers, they are Catholics and speak a different language so they don't have too much in common with the established Indian community.

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The United Nations devised common language to describe it only in the year 2000, and most countries have a long way to go in adapting their laws to international standards, let alone enforcing them.

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The only contact with the foreign Trailmen is through trade conducted once a year in silence and by sign language, since the isolated tribes are thought to have no common language.

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"For the past two centuries, we have forged a nation by emphasizing our common beliefs, our common ideals and, perhaps most important ... our common language, " Solomon said on the House floor.

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