As he described, the Anglosphere was a persistent force that created a common world culture via land, language, and law (the common law, which originated in Anglo-Saxon culture).

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Beyond calculations of interest, the emotional ties created by a common language and alliances in two world wars are clearly still strong.

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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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His films appealed around the world partly because, in text and texture, they eloquently spoke the common language of film.

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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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This is a guest post by Nataly Kelly, Chief Research Officer at the Boston-based research firm Common Sense Advisory and author of Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World (Penguin).

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