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[patent pelican]

Please be patient

Our volunteers look into many questions every day; sometimes it takes them a little while to answer.

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Make it descriptive, including relevant context, but also to the point. This way you improve your chances of getting a more relevant and specific answer.

[pure siren]

From my Canadian perspective, you're overthinking it a bit
est-ce que is totally normal in speech, there's no particular exception to the formality of the difference question forms in this case
And remember, French loves repeating the topic of a sentence and throwing in a dummy pronoun, e.g. "tornado ça se dit comment?" (you can throw it at the end of a sentence too)

"comment dit-on" is just school French, one of those phrases that lives on in a super overrepresented way, like comme ci comme ça

[full parcel]

"comment on dit" might sound funny to you, but it is the most natural way to say it for me

[chrome steppe]

NOT COMME CI COMME CA NOOO

[pure siren]

I can count the number of times I've heard "comme ci comme ça" outside of school on zero hands