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If you are a native English speaker kudos for writing "huevos" and not "Cahones" or other of its similar cringy misspellings. But 90% chance you are from the so
by cambalache 7y ago
If you are a native English speaker kudos for writing "huevos" and not "Cahones" or other of its similar cringy misspellings. But 90% chance you are from the south cone so carry on.
- ebg13 7y agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cojones https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cojones ?
- ficklepickle 7y agoTo be fair, they both appear on the wikipedia page for Spanish profanity[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_profanity#References_to_the_male_genitalia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_profanity#References_t...
- cambalache 7y agoYou misunderstood, it is not the word "cojones" I was mocking, just the hilarious misspeling some people use, I have seen "Cohones","Cahones", "Koojonehs" and so on
- maximente 7y agomy brain's classifier would predict upon hearing just huevos => mexican spanish. i'd imagine southern cone speakers would say pelotas, but might be way off here.
- LolWolf 7y agoThat's pretty much spot on (more generally, I think it's a Central-American thing). Either "pelotas" or "bolas" are the common ones in South America (huevos is present, but rarely used in the same way—"huevón" is the classic insult used throughout).
- cambalache 7y agoNot at all. Huevos is the preferred term in Argentina/Uruguay.
- LolWolf 7y agoInteresting. My dad is Uruguayan and I have not heard him use it (perhaps a biased sample?). I’m Venezuelan, for context, so it may explain this view :)
- cambalache 7y agoVenezolano y nunca ha oido un argentino decir "ponga huevo" "dejame de romper los huevos" ay chamo te van a quitar la cedula, Maduro, pero si tu viejo es yorugua capaz alla usan mas pelotas entonces.
- rootsudo 7y agoI disagree.
- Al-Khwarizmi 7y agoNot necessarily Mexican: I'm from Spain, and we use huevos (as well as pelotas and cojones). In the context of this post, I would probably use huevos: "qué huevos tiene Forbes publicando este artículo cuando (...)" would be perfectly idiomatic Spanish from Spain.