Talk:Güey

The ü should go in "Guey" not in Buey. Buey refers to an water buffalo kind of animal, that is used to pull the harvest wood machinery. Güey instead is the vulgar expression like "dude". Correction..........Buey is an Ox, just to get specific.....and Guey carries the two dots, called in spanish "dieresis" over the "u" since it goes right after the "g"'s sound which is already similar to the sound of the vocal "u"....this is to make us pronounce it harder to listen to the difference.......anyway.....nowadays........"Guey" will only be offensive or vulgar only if you start using it either without knowing the person at all or if that person is not really close to you.........meaning your friend or buddy.....the shorting of the word ....."gue"......it is more ignorant and mythical that it is more or less of a tool that has ever been used or understood with any type of success........it's more of a soapoperistic monological dream-word that never saw fruits.......it's just silly to say it....the blame for the lazy attempt to not even completing saying the whole word goes to a modern type of mexican youngster that in reality knows too little about the word and tries to make it sound personalizingly cooler..........as well as not knowing that later they'll be using it as often in the end but in it's complete and correct form anyway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.34.191.63 (talk) 07:50, 9 January 2010 (UTC) I also know that, well yeah it might be found on both the Mexican Academy of Language....but never mind the Spanish one.........that country if anything has come up with less new words than any other specially having anything to say about others countries slang.....they are just to far away to know the facts......the word is Mexican, "Citadina"(From Mexico City) in it's entire form and use, urban and coloquial.....sometimes more than a deafening more than often every day, every time word for the everyday mexican, specially for those in the capital.......back to the lazy "Gue"...it u happen to come accross it, chances are it will happen out in Province states outside The Federal District of Mexico. Also......it's vulgarity loss traction a long time ago, pretty much since the late 50's early 60's.........as a matter a fact some of the people who also in fact really pionneered it and help to consolidated were the mexican baby-boomers......our parents......so.....of course it will sound a thousand negatives ways to certain people....like grand ma or someone else of aroun that age, whose ideas, morals and religion will be different and are less tolerant......bu other than that.....mexican spanish sits in the throne with or without completed words......so use it, have fun with it and more than anything elese enjoy it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.34.191.63 (talk) 08:17, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm fairly sure the buey/ox origin is a misconception, albeit a common one even in Mexico. Huey, (H is silent in Spanish, meaning it's pronounced the same as wey), is a Nahuatl word - Nahuatl being a language spoken in Mexico, which means "chief" or "governor" and makes far more sense as an etymological explanation. "Wey" is most commonly written in Mexico, and "güey" could be an error or aberration 189.207.59.47 (talk) 08:31, 2 June 2017 (UTC)