Small query on "Ty li" - "Ia"

[Lyudmila Grinshpan]

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Now this question, to fluent Russian speakers: If we devise a similar passage, same structure but in a modern setting, does it come off sounding like a natural exchange?

    (Reporter): Vy li prorab?  -   (Foreman): Ia.

Or would today's interlocutors frame it differently?

"Li" is not often used in colloquial speech. In a modern setting the conversation would probably sound like this:
(Reporter): Vy prorab?  -   (Foreman): Ia.(or Da.)



      

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