The meaning of Ubuntu

[Jonathan Carter]

Daniel Stone wrote:
>>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.

I think some of it got lost in translation. Ubuntu is a recurring word, 
that means "Use Ubuntu, Stupid!"

-Jonathan