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May 28, 2008,  2:46 pm What Will Globalization Do to Languages? A Freakonomics Quorum By Stephen J. Dubner The headline says it all, although the unspoken question is: will globalization indeed result in the hegemony of English, as has long been promised/threatened? We gathered up some wise people who spend their time thinking about such things — Christian Rolling, Mark Liberman, Henry Hitchings, and John Hayden — and asked them to answer our question. Many thanks for their insights.