Hey guys, did you know the word "diamond" comes from the Greek word “adamas”, meaning "unconquerable"?
During the Middle Ages mine owners perpetuated myths that diamonds were poisonous. This was done to prevent the mineworkers from stealing the diamonds by swallowing them.
I started thinking about these facts because I was staring at my abs in the mirror today. My abs are actually the hardest substance on Earth, not diamonds. And that's a scientific fact. I hope you're taking notes.
While deserving nothing less than Anonymous's imprimatur verité, this post would benefit from Ma & Calderon's forthcoming Comparative Linguistics of Ancient Greek and Hebrew Spatio-Etymological Hybridization. With exacting exegesis heretofore unpracticed by teams of such fresh pedigree, the pair trace the startlingly coeval geo-histories of the Greeks' "adamas" (diamond) and the Hebrews' "adam" (earthborn) to a tome buried under a single island now sunken some 300 metres off present-day Crete. Their syncretic revision to our understanding of ancient civilizations' trade in the most fundamental of phonemes presents as pathbreaking and, well, *hard* a challenge to contemporary cultural/linguistic epistemology as do the marbled (even Grecian) striations of Scott Newton's titanic abs.
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