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Because the Vietnamese didn't romanise their language. The French did. There have been suggestions to evolve the way vietnamese is written. For example, "Y" an
by throwaway3838e 11y ago
Because the Vietnamese didn't romanise their language. The French did.
There have been suggestions to evolve the way vietnamese is written. For example, "Y" and "I" are the same sound, and could be changed to just "I" to simplify. However "Thuy" is a common girl's name whereas "thui" is "smelly". There is resistance to change everything to "I" because it would change the name to something embarrassing.
- bbgm 11y agoI used to live in Vietnam for several years. Both my dad and my brother have names starting with "J", which isn't quite around, so in all ID cards their names started with "I".