I understand that ～てください is the polite request form, and that both ～てくれ and
simply using the ～て form are both more colloquial. I'm just not sure how they
compare, my guess would be that ～てくれ is more rough, but I'm not sure.
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Is there a difference in (im)politeness between ～てくれ and ～て？
In the case of making requests, て on its own is just a shortened version of
てください which isn't that much more informal than ～てください. ～てくれ is using the
imperative form of くれる which is _much_ more forward and commanding than ください
or て. So, your intuition is spot on. A more polite way of てくれ would be
something like ～てくれないか or ～てくれませんか.
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