Common Lexeme

lun

Keywords: colour

Pronunciation (IPA): lun 
Part of Speech: term noun verb 
Class: skurun 
Forms: lun, lunys, luntuin 
Glosses: colour, hue, gay, queer, bi, lesbian, trans, nonbinary, Pride 

Description:

The term 'lun' refers to colour or hue. As a noun is it approximately equivalent to the English word 'colour'. As a verb, it is a transitive skurun verb that takes an ergative thing that colours and an absolutive thing that is being coloured. Its antipassive form is idiomatically interpreted as 'to be colourful', and it can take a periphrastic object introduced with the null preposition that is a colour that the absolutive subject is colouring itself. The modifier form 'lunys' means 'colourful'.

Idiomatically, 'lunys' means gay or queer, referring to any sexual preference other than heterosexual, displacing the early borrowing 'ge' (note the nonstandard spelling) from English. It is usually more about sexual preference than gender presentation, as NWO society would view a transgender man who preferred women, for example, as straight. To refer to a queer person, the polite expression is 'ny lunys atuin' - 'ny lunysyn' can be used but is derogatory in tone.

When saying someone is queer, rather than use a form like 'we se lun', 'I am colourful', which will be taken to mean literal colours, one should use a copular expression like 'we se an lunys'.

NWO society is very matter-of-fact about sexual preference, (for elites, though, this is as long as one fullfils one's reprodcutive duties), and 'lunys' is viewed as a neutral term that people would throw around casually and without any particular emotional baggage.

The NWO version of the Pride festival honouring the advancement of LGBTQ rights is the month-long bacchanal celebration known is na Opilaz naz Lun (the Month of Colours), na Eonaz naz Lun (the Day of Colours), or just naz Lun. See attachment for more details.

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