to have a question

[CarloSsS]

If I have a question, can I say the following?

Can I have a question?

I know that other correct possibilities are:
Can I ask you something?
Can I ask (you) a question?

But what about the first one? Is it acceptable?

 

[5jj]

If I have a question, can I say the following?

Can I have a question?

It's not very natural, though doubtless some people will come up with links to sites in which it has been written/said.

 

[birdeen's call]

It's not very natural, though doubtless some people will come up with links to sites in which it has ben written/said.

It's not difficult to present a collection of 37,800,000 links.

 

[5jj]

It's not difficult to present a collection of 37,800,000 links.

I have just tried i is not never mistook (without quotes) - 3,870,000!

 

[birdeen's call]

I have just tried i is not never mistook (without quotes) - 3,870,000!

Fortunately, it's 0 with the quotes.

 

[5jj]

Fortunately, it's 0 with the quotes.

Damn!

Will no-one rid me of these turbulent quotes?

 

[Chicken Sandwich]

NOT A TEACHER

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but to me "Can I have a question?" and "Can I ask you something?" do not mean the same thing. "Can I have a question?" to me means "Am I able to have a question?" or "Am I allowed to have a question?".

 

[bhaisahab]

NOT A TEACHER

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but to me "Can I have a question?" and "Can I ask you something?" do not mean the same thing. "Can I have a question?" to me means "Am I able to have a question?" or "Am I allowed to have a question?".

You can be able or allowed to have a question but, perhaps, not be able or allowed to have it answered, or to ask it.

 

[CarloSsS]

Damn!

Will no-one rid me of these turbulent quotes?

If you make a query like this [i is not never mistook] on Google without putting it between quotation marks, you are basically saying that you want to find any resources that contain one of the following words: "i", "is", "never", "mistook". Note that Google searches are not case-sensitive most of the time. When you put the words in "", then you are tasking Google with finding the exact phrase in the quotation marks (here case-sensitiveness applies). All in all, there's a lot of "magic" going on before the query is actually executed and the results are returned.

 

[CarloSsS]

Back to the original question, would it even be possible for a native speaker to utter such a sentence? If so, what would it mean? If not, would you understand what they actually are trying to say?

 

[bhaisahab]

Back to the original question, would it even be possible for a native speaker to utter such a sentence? If so, what would it mean? If not, would you understand what they actually are trying to say?

"Can I have a question?" is not something a native speaker would say. If somebody said it, would understand that they meant to say "Can I ask a question?"