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What is the courteous alternative of “Do you understand what I say?”? [duplicate]
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“Does it make sense?” or “Do you understand me?”?
"Do you get me?", "Do you get my point?", etc?
What is the courteous alternative of "Do you understand what I say?"?
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Polite phrase to ask for details [closed]
Usually, I send to a client "Cover Letter" with phrase "May I get the details?", if I need to get more information about his project. Suddenly, I have discovered that it is not very polite. And now I ...
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“May I ask if…”
A question like:
May I ask if you've seen it all?
Can yield two answers:
Yes, I've seen it all.
Yes, you may ask.
Can you avoid this (the may-answer), remaining a tad more polite than usual?
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“Would you have a suggestion?” Vs. “Do you have a suggestion?”
If you were asking for suggestions, say at stackexchange, what would be the most polite grammatically accurate version:
Statement of the problem followed by:
1. Do you have a suggestion?
2. Would ...
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How to ask a knowledge question without causing offence?
By "knowledge question", I mean any sort of question intended to check whether the listener already knows the answer or not. For example:
Are you familiar with how an operating system works?
Do you ...
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What is the correct way to answer a general question?
Is it considered rude to answer a question with a question? For instance: Q. Did you eat those cookies? A. Why?
Would the correct response be "Yes I did (or no I did not), why do you ask?"
