Old English just has some wonderful words and kennings. I mean, really:
Their word for sea? It was often swan-rad or “road of the swan.” Spider was gangelwaefre, literally “the walking weaver.” They had the simple and now-obsolete word uht, which describes that time just before sunrise when mist still hangs heavy over all the fields and lakes and the last few stars are still out.
…Also, they didn’t say body. They said ban-cofan, which means “bone-cave,” and if you don’t think that’s some hardcore shit right there then you need to get out of my face before I turn your skull into a mead-cup.
okay okay okay
so the thing in homestuck! where low-blooded slang (apparently) is to refer to things in the most convoluted way possible, even when the language definitely has direct words for them, and using those direct words is considered 'blue blooded vernacular'
so lowbloods use kennings? which highbloods disregard in favor of simplicity?
I AM VERY CURIOUS HERE BECAUSE KARKAT'S MANNER OF SPEAKING IS NOT JUST A JOKE IT'S POETRY
(also Kanaya does this notably, with shout poles and surprised noodles or whatever the question mark was)