On 7/5/05, Servien Ilaino servien@gmail.com wrote:
The y's were initially used to make it look more "trendy and hip" but people who used it said it looked too much like (Westlauwers-)Frisian... the v's are probably used because in Dutch the f and the v are pronounced the same and where used as a compromise so that it wouldn't look too much like German.
just a small intermezo, in correct Dutch pronounciation the f and the v are 2 different sounds. Only some parts of the Netherlands mash the 2 together in one sound.
Finne