Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 17, 2016

I wonder what was the last known language to die 14 days ago. It definitely is going to take a long time with English no doubt.

1.8 miles, huh? The news account must said he paddled for a kilometer.

Considering we now list “ON FLEEK” in the dictionary along with numerous other idiotic slang words I’d say English (as we once knew it) is pretty close to extinct.

Why are we bigger? Alaska person who knows geography…

One language dies every 14 days. What a waste and loss.

Too bad “Rap” doesn’t die!

Yes, Ikester, according to what was written, Brazil and China are Larger than the US if you do not include the 2 NON-contiguous states (Alaska and Hawaii).

The language of Common Sense and died horribly long ago..

The languages that are being “lost every 14 days” are pretty much ALL native/aboriginal languages and dialects. In remote areas like the Arctic, Amazon jungle, central Asia, etc. each isolated tribe has its own language – it may be RELATED to some other language, but it’s enough different to be classified a separate language. These are tiny tribes that die out because the young people leave for “civilization,” or the birth rate stops exceeding the death rate, or others leave to join more dynamic tribes nearby and take up THEIR language. No one is KILLING languages. You might just as well lament that no one speaks Sumerian any more. . . . .

I thought it strange that China was considered smaller than the U.S. given China’s enormous population, but that’s not what was taken into account. China, if I read it right, is larger than the 48 adjacent states, but smaller in total land area than the combined 50 states.

That poor language. Having to undergo death every 14 days! LOL Of course, that means it gets resurrected every 14 days, too. BTW, what language is that?

For years I learned that China was the second biggest nation in land area, ahead of Canada and the U.S. What happened? Are we not counting Tibet anymore?

If a language dies every 14 days, does a group of peoples also die? This seems fuzzy, who’s keeping track of this.

Can we get Ebonics to die?

Smh, imagine escaping a Norwegian jail… They’re a lot more luxurious than even my house and people don’t get treated like trash unlike most other prison systems…

I never heard about the languages dying all the time. Is that because no one says anything??