I am not involve with Litecoin. As a newbie now I am trying to learn about Bitcoin. I have read some articles on litcoin and I don't think Litecoin is totally dead.
it is not, because every coin want to be second only to bitcoin they keep calling LTC dismiss ahead of the time.
Ripple is second, Litecoin is just wannabe second.

Ripple is not a coin lol
Although I don't endorse Ripple, but what does your 'not a coin' have to do with anything? Do you imply that if something's not mined, it can't transfer value and thus act as money? Well, you're wrong, there are multiple examples of the opposite. Coin - no coin, you're stuck in 2009-2013 Bitcoin mining era, hello, it's 2014!
I think it was a joke as there is not a Ripple coin, but Ripple is a network and XRP is the native coin of that network. I use the words interchangeably, but technically he was correct.. even though it was a bit nit picky.
If he was not being nit picky, then carry on.
