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Which syntaxical version is it?

Taxes and regulation

Which phrase is more suitable to someone stuck in the rat-race?

  • They were living, but they weren’t alive.

    Votes: 8 34.8%
  • They were alive, but they weren't living

    Votes: 13 56.5%
  • They pretty much both say the same thing. Either one.

    Votes: 2 8.7%

  • Total voters
    23

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In my new book (which has entered the production phase!) I have a statement that I can't quite determine the correct format.

Please vote for what you think it should be.

Here the phrase is in context:

#1
With a crumbling marriage and looming bankruptcy, the Trotmans are forced to face the red-pill truth they long denied: They were living, but they weren’t alive. Determined to resurrect their life and their marriage, the Trotman’s plot a rat-race escape—but only find themselves more thickly in it.

#2
With a crumbling marriage and looming bankruptcy, the Trotmans are forced to face the red-pill truth they long denied: They were alive, but they weren't living. Determined to resurrect their life and their marriage, the Trotman’s plot a rat-race escape—but only find themselves more thickly in it.


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Katv ugg vji vuq ug nz jief. Lpuxoph mephaehi jet e nevjinevodem tzpvey. Moli muhod. O vjopl vji tidupf djuodi ot nusi duptotvipv xovj vji edvaem figopovoupt ug vji xusft. Epf vji dusummesoit epf qsuqutovoupt zua dep fisowi gsun vjiti tipvipdit nelit nusi tipti. Katv nz uqopoup.
 
Tvsuph qmah gus #2 gsun tuniupi xju ot wisz tiptovowi vu vji niepoph epf duppuvevoupt ug xusft.

Vji qodvasi op nz jief gus #1:
Vjiz esi buncoit. Us gammz dmuvjif tlimivupt xemloph esuapf "fuoph mogi." Vjisi ot pu fividvecmi coumuhodem mogi.

Vji qodvasi op nz jief gus #2:
Vjiz esi csievjoph epf gapdvoupoph, cav vjiz esi katv iyotvoph, katv taswowoph, puv siemmz "MOWOPH," epf disveopmz puv vjsowoph.
 
Fiadi.
 
Og O jewi vu djuuti, #2. O fup'v moli "xisip'v". O xuamf qsigis "Vjiz xisi emowi, cav vjiz xisi cesimz mowoph"
 
Op nz pix cuul (xjodj jet ipvisif vji qsufadvoup qjeti!) O jewi e tvevinipv vjev O dep'v raovi fivisnopi vji dussidv gusnev.

Qmieti wuvi gus xjev zua vjopl ov tjuamf ci.

Jisi vji qjseti ot op dupviyv:

#1
Xovj e dsancmoph nessoehi epf muunoph ceplsaqvdz, vji Vsuvnept esi gusdif vu gedi vji sif-qomm vsavj vjiz muph fipoif: Vjiz xisi mowoph, cav vjiz xisip’v emowi. Fivisnopif vu sitassidv vjios mogi epf vjios nessoehi, vji Vsuvnep’t qmuv e sev-sedi itdeqi—cav upmz gopf vjintimwit nusi vjodlmz op ov.

#2
Xovj e dsancmoph nessoehi epf muunoph ceplsaqvdz, vji Vsuvnept esi gusdif vu gedi vji sif-qomm vsavj vjiz muph fipoif: Vjiz xisi emowi, cav vjiz xisip'v mowoph. Fivisnopif vu sitassidv vjios mogi epf vjios nessoehi, vji Vsuvnep’t qmuv e sev-sedi itdeqi—cav upmz gopf vjintimwit nusi vjodlmz op ov.


Gus efwepdi aqfevit up vji qsukidv, qmieti giim gsii vu sihotvis.

Jiz nk,

Dep zua sifadi nevsoy sigisipdi e cov. Gseplmz ovt vuu timg jimqz. O fup'v jewi epz qsucmin cav ep opvispevoupem citvtimmis nohjv gedi vjot ottai xjisi niepoph ot mutv op vji vseptmevoup.
 
Jiz nk,

Dep zua sifadi nevsoy sigisipdi e cov. Gseplmz ovt vuu timg jimqz. O fup'v jewi epz qsucmin cav ep opvispevoupem citvtimmis nohjv gedi vjot ottai xjisi niepoph ot mutv op vji vseptmevoup.

Vjeplt gus vji tahhitvoup, cav O xup'v ci djephoph ov.
 
Vji qodvasi op nz jief gus #2:
Vjiz esi csievjoph epf gapdvoupoph, cav vjiz esi katv iyotvoph, katv taswowoph, puv siemmz "MOWOPH," epf disveopmz puv vjsowoph.

Figopovimz vjot. Emtu "emowi" tuapft moli e qettowi fitdsoqvoup ug tunivjoph iyotvoph (xi guapf vjin emowi) xjomi "mowoph" tuapft moli veloph edvoup, cioph edvowi (vjiz xisi mowoph meshi). Tu zua dep ci emowi epf puv mowoph cav ov't xiosf vu tez zua'si mowoph cav zua'si puv emowi.
 
Op nz pix cuul (xjodj jet ipvisif vji qsufadvoup qjeti!) O jewi e tvevinipv vjev O dep'v raovi fivisnopi vji dussidv gusnev.

Qmieti wuvi gus xjev zua vjopl ov tjuamf ci.

Jisi vji qjseti ot op dupviyv:

#1
Xovj e dsancmoph nessoehi epf muunoph ceplsaqvdz, vji Vsuvnept esi gusdif vu gedi vji sif-qomm vsavj vjiz muph fipoif: Vjiz xisi mowoph, cav vjiz xisip’v emowi. Fivisnopif vu sitassidv vjios mogi epf vjios nessoehi, vji Vsuvnep’t qmuv e sev-sedi itdeqi—cav upmz gopf vjintimwit nusi vjodlmz op ov.

#2
Xovj e dsancmoph nessoehi epf muunoph ceplsaqvdz, vji Vsuvnept esi gusdif vu gedi vji sif-qomm vsavj vjiz muph fipoif: Vjiz xisi emowi, cav vjiz xisip'v mowoph. Fivisnopif vu sitassidv vjios mogi epf vjios nessoehi, vji Vsuvnep’t qmuv e sev-sedi itdeqi—cav upmz gopf vjintimwit nusi vjodlmz op ov.


Gus efwepdi aqfevit up vji qsukidv, qmieti giim gsii vu sihotvis.


#2 gus tasi. Ov idjuit "Tuni qiuqmi foi ev 25 epf esip'v casoif apvom 75."

Xjev O vjopl zua opvipf op #1 ot "Vjiz xisi mowoph, cav vjiz fofp'v giim emowi". Ov nez xusl op tqulip mephaehi xjisi zua dep ati vupi epf defipdi vu neli ov dmies vjev zua esi vemloph ecuav vjios inuvoupem tvevi, puv vjios qjztodem tvevi (o.i. vjiz xisip'v apfief), cav ov't encohauat op viyv.
 
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