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Mar 22, 2008 - 06:14 PM
Yes, there are more polite ways to do it, of course. But you would need more vocab and more structures to do so. Here we are using what we have to communicate effectively. Little by little nuances are added, but at first, with so few structures and so few words, the idea is for people to put sentences together by themselves that communicate the idea they want. If it is a bit direct, well, it is reasonable, they are foreigners, and people will be understanding of that.