The meaning of Ubuntu

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:51:12AM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> > Little IRC log:
> > 
> > <lilliput> Seveas, my gilfriend told me that ubuntu get a meaning in her
> > langage . ; she is malay .; and I was surprised when she told me that
> > <lilliput> ubuntu means stupid in malay
> 
> My Chinese-Malaysian officemate (who is not a native speaker of Malay)
> is claiming the closest word meaning 'stupid' she can think of is
> "bodoh". Anyone else got close contacts with Malay speakers they can
> bring into the ring?

Bodoh is the same in Indonesian.  I asked around a few native Indonesian
speakers (it's a very close relative of Malay, linguistically), and they
had no idea; it doesn't sound like a very Indonesian word, either.
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