Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 17, 2016
Transcript:
What two countries are larger than the contiguous United States, but smaller than the United States? ?????? Brazil & China A prisoner escaped from a Norwegian jail on a surfboard, he fled Bastdy Low Security Prison by using a plastic shovel to paddle the surfboard 1.8 miles to the mainland. One language dies every 14 days.
Templo S.U.D. almost 8 years ago
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.
PMark almost 8 years ago
1.8 miles, huh? The news account must said he paddled for a kilometer.
TossedSaladCartoon almost 8 years ago
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.
comixbomix almost 8 years ago
Why are we bigger? Alaska person who knows geography…
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 8 years ago
One language dies every 14 days. What a waste and loss.
SeaFox10 almost 8 years ago
Too bad “Rap” doesn’t die!
cb795 almost 8 years ago
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).
Space_cat almost 8 years ago
The language of Common Sense and died horribly long ago..
mamajock.kimi almost 8 years 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. . . . .
WDD almost 8 years ago
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.
ekke almost 8 years ago
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?
Stephen Gilberg almost 8 years ago
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?
donut reply almost 8 years ago
If a language dies every 14 days, does a group of peoples also die? This seems fuzzy, who’s keeping track of this.
donut reply almost 8 years ago
Can we get Ebonics to die?
Silica Gel over 2 years ago
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…