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by thfuran 451 days ago
"Would you like some breakfast" isn't quite so overly wordy that I'd say it sounds unnatural, but it absolutely is not the bare minimum for idiomatic English.

"Do you want breakfast?" is perfectly grammatical, and "Want breakfast?" would be a totally normal phrasing, even if some might argue that eliding the subject isn't technically correct.

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There's even the in-between "You want breakfast?" that relies on the tonal shift at the end of the sentence used for questions.