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Lately ふう has been on my mind. Often it seems interchangeable with よう:

>   1. これを｛こんな **ふう** ／この **よう** ｝にしてください。 Please make it like this.
>
>   2. あれを｛どういう **ふう** ／どの **よう** ｝に解釈しますか。 In what way do you interpret that?
>
>   3. 家を出るとき、帰りにケーキを買ってきてという｛ **ふう** ／ **よう** ｝に言われました。 When I was about to
> leave, I was told to pick up some cake on the way back.
>
>

### Questions

When ふう and よう are used in this way to mean "manner" or "like":

  1. Are they always interchangeable?
  2. Is there any difference in nuance?
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When are ふう and よう interchangeable?
First of all, as you already implicitly show in your examples, their modifiers
are not interchangable.

> {こ/そ/あ/ど}んなふうに  
>  × {こ/そ/あ/ど}のふうに  
>  △ {こ/そ/あ/ど}んなように  
>  {こ/そ/あ/ど}のように

I think `ふう` means some manner freely picked out, whereas `よう` is a manner
chosen from the possibilities set by the context. This difference parallels
the English `what` vs. `which`.

> In what way did you do it?  
>  In which way did you do it?
>
> What kind of music do you like?  
>  Which kind of music do you like?

English `what` does not presuppose the possibilities whereas `which` requires
a contextually specified set from which one is chosen (i.e., in linguistic
terms, _discourse-linked_ ).

On top of that difference, `ふう` is less approximate than `よう`. To reflect the
difference, I would translate your examples like this:

> これをこんなふうにしてください。  
>  'Please make this kind of like this.  
>  これをこのようにしてください。  
>  'Please make this (look) this way.
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When I wrote my graduation thesis, I used このふうに. A friend corrected my
Japanese, but told me he had left in all the ふう's as a nod to my personal
style. He also said that ふう was inappropriate in a serious written style -- I
should have used よう. By the time he told me this it was too late...
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