
Personally, I think that a comma should be put between "mean" and "you" at least. My rationale is that the second clause is a paraphrase of the other person's words, and so needs to be separated from the main clause, "What do you mean?"
Otherwise, great sentence. I think it is a great translation of the German sentence (#448) and a great sentence on its own.

I think it's fine with or without the comma, and I would in fact make the choice to disambiguate the presence vs absence of a pause in speech there.

Okay cool. Learn something new every day :)
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