Learn how to ask questions?

Something that makes me smile a bit every time I hear it is Rhett & Link's proclivity for pointing out the not-actually-question-asking-question-asking abilities of the younger generation (I'm too old to be counted in this generation, sadly, so I shall speak from an outsider or more inbetweener perspective on this). I like to refer to this not-actually-question-asking-question-asking ability as NAQAQA (pronounced: nuh-kaka). 

NAQAQA affects approximately 2.6 dozen youth across the globe in a negative way  (citation needed).  I mean, it affects all youths across the globe, but only 2.6 dozen are affected in a negative way.

NAQAQA tends to go unnoticed by those who suffer from it, but is described as an inability to form questions in a question form. A common example would be when a certain Internetainment duo ask for questions about hairstyles they can answer and submissions sent in include non-questions such as: "Short hairstyle." That, fellow sojourners, is a sentence fragment. A proper question should look more like this: "What are some nice-looking short hairstyles for girls?" 

Grammatically, it is appropriate for the questions to include information pertaining to the request for information.  What do you want to know about the subject of which you inquire? 

HOWEVER, MY FELLOW MYTHICAL BEASTS... 

I must challenge the notion, oft proposed by honorable hosts, that simply because a question lacks the assumed information a question should have, does not a non-question it make. (Let's not dwell on how messy that sentence just got...)

The definition of a question is a request for information. Therefore, should the premise of the request be put forth ahead of time, either during a conversation or, let's say, during a request for said subsequent request in a YouTube video, then the fully understood sentence fragment is a valid question. 

Examples:

"Types of Hats"  As Rhett would say, this is a title of a book. It's certainly not a question. It doesn't request information, but simply states some very vague information. 

But now let's witness our sentence fragment (which requests no information in and of itself) within the context of a conversation:

R&L: What would you like to know more about?

Viewers: Types of hats! 

Now, there is an understanding that "types of hats" is something the viewers want to know more about. The entire meaning indicated here is "I would like to know more about types of hats." But typing out that whole sentence is just inefficient (right, Link?) when the full meaning behind the comment can be understood without it! 

Now, even this full sentence is NOT a question grammatically, but it certainly requests information. Which leads to the question "If a question functions as a question but is not structured as a question is it a question? Perhaps a quasi-question?" 

And if requesting information in a sentence is a question, then a fragment of a sentence which is understood to request information in the same way as a question can also be a question in that it is requesting (questing again?) said information. 

So, young NAQAQA sufferers, and those who stand in judgment of the NAQAQA question asking methods, a question is as a question does (and what it does is get Rhett and Link to talk about stuff so it's all good, ya dig?!)

Thanks all for now.

See you guys in the comments section! 

- Michele (with 1L)