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by Uehreka 2525 days ago
This sort of thing drove me insane in elementary school and still does to this day. In vernacular English, "can you" is just a more polite and less aggressive form of "will you". Having those two options is really useful. Distinguishing between them like that always feels more like a power play by someone trying to force someone else to use an arbitrary phrasing, rather than an actual lesson in how English works.