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my 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
by maximente 6y ago
my 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 6y 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 6y agoNot at all. Huevos is the preferred term in Argentina/Uruguay.
- LolWolf 6y 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 6y 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 6y agoI disagree.
- Al-Khwarizmi 6y 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.