Hi, in cases like that one, "please" should be intended as an exhortation -- a kind form of "come on!/ hurry up!" -- it sounds kind, but the one who speaks is perhaps nervous. "Please", it normally has what the Communication science calls "Phatic function", that is, to maintain a high level of interaction between Sender and Receiver (--- Hello, How are you, Please, Look at me -- also "touching" the person has this function) In this case instead, "please" gains another meaning, which is called "Conative function", whose purpose is to make the Receiver do what we want -- here it creates a "kind Imperative" You might read: The Jakobson Functions of Language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakobson%27s_functions_of_language Post Scriptum--- The functions can very often combine each other so, in this case we should call it a "Phatic-Conative function". So, the difference between the two versions of the Question, is that the version with "Please" is such a strong request, that it could be considered no more a "question" but a "Rhetorical question": a question which gives no alternatives.

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To put it simply, it's just a way to add a little bit of urgency to the request.