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Vilani language question

I'm doing this Type-S build in OpenSim, and planning on doing some RP there. Sort of semi-automated Traveller...
and in the course of getting props for different things, I ran across "SF Farm" which grows different resources and lets you do normal MMORPG style crafting with them.
Which is all well and good... except...
I put all the farm stuff about 30 meters from the hangar where I'm working on the ship.
I can hear chickens and farm animals over there as I'm working on the power bus, capacitors, and laser turret....
I said to my wife, "It's a freaking redneck starport around here."

Then I realized I had a name for the place.... but just one problem.

How do you say "Redneck" in Vilani?
 
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’O sole mio
 
How do you say "Redneck" in Vilani?
Pakamenima.

From the intransitive verb paka (to behave foolishly or unsoundly) -- which, when used as a prefix, becomes adjectival -- attached to the noun menima, meaning 'farm laborer'. Menima, by the way, makes no distinction between a human or robot worker, which gives you a general idea of what the Vilani thought of people who did that line of work to begin with.

A slightly less insulting version of it would be pakadikani, which translates more-or-less as 'stupid dirt-farmer'. A dikani is a type of farmer who tries to make do in an arid or desert region.

Note that paka is probably related to the very similar word pak, a noun that refers to either the sense of hearing itself or the region around the ears, depending on the context, so paka probably implies a type of foolishness or stupidity that results from the inability, or refusal, to listen (literally) to reason.
 
"Solomani" had me cracking up.

Open Sim is the open-source version of Second Life. Not sure if that's a useful answer - it's a virtual world thing where you can go in and build/code. The base package handles world and physics and a few other things, every thing else you can build from inside the world.

And "pakadikani" sounds like where I want to go...
I might leave the paka off, and just go with "Dikani Port"
Thank you!
 
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