what do you mean ? or what you mean?

what do you mean

"what you mean" is only possible as part of a longer sentence. For example:

Can you explain in more detail what you mean?

Yankee"what you mean" is only possible as part of a longer sentence. For example:

Can you explain in more detail what you mean?

Yes. More examples from The Atlantic here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/srch/?words=%22what+you

what you mean?

Is it acceptable colloquially?

On its own, it is not acceptable, not even colloquially, in my opinion.

Thank you for this clarification!

We are making a meal out of this basic grammatical problem.

In questions, full verbs like mean require an auxiliary do.

Or does your question concern whether it is possible, be it a sentence or only a part of it, that we place these words one after the other in the given sequence?

Hi,

I don't know the above comment addressed me or the thread starter.

If it's me, let me explain.

I bel

MapleBTW, is "make a meal out of sth basic" an idiom alike? Does it mean make a fuss over trivia or sth else?

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=49452&dict=CALD

Hi Marius,

It means to whip up a storm in a teacup