"Can I Help You?" - Considerate Language, Polite Lead-Ins and Euphemisms

Solution 1:

This would seem to be a circumlocution for something more direct.

cir·cum·lo·cu·tion ˌsərkəmˌləˈkyo͞oSH(ə)n/ noun plural noun: circumlocutions

the use of many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive. "his admission came after years of circumlocution" synonyms: periphrasis, discursiveness, long-windedness, verbosity, verbiage, wordiness, prolixity, redundancy, pleonasm, tautology, repetitiveness, repetitiousness "when you've finished your circumlocution, maybe you could just get to the point"

Origin late Middle English: from Latin circumlocutio(n-) (translating Greek periphrasis ), from circum ‘around’ + locutio(n-), from loqui ‘speak.’

Source of definition - Google Search dictionary.