Yet Pharaoh seems perfectly satisfied with their reply. One possibility is that, lost in the translation, is a nuance wherein the brothers actually do avoid saying the upsetting thing. Or perhaps the lesson is that the plain truth is always the way to go. To base it on the week's Torah portion. To do it in half a page or less.
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