The Yoruba have shared a common language and culture for centuries but were probably never a single political unit.
But here's the thing: the exec shared a common language and a common passion with those he steamrolled.
Regardless of their respective identities in the more distant past, by the seventh century these lands shared a common language, Aramaic.
Browder also warned that mathematics was becoming too specialized and siloed, such that experts in different subfields, not to mention in different sciences, no longer shared a common language or mutual understanding.
Swift shared a common language with his English friends Alexander Pope and Viscount Bolingbroke, but, in the words of 20th-century Irish nationalist writer Daniel Corkery, "the Ascendancy mind is not the same thing as the English mind".
"I cannot tell exactly what part of 'The Millennium Trilogy' comes from Stieg and what comes from me," she writes, adding: "I can only say that just as Stieg and I shared a common language, we often wrote together".
