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I recently started to "be more curious," which is a common piece of advice in engineering. However, I find that sometimes I ask questions that come off accidentally rude. For example, asking "why" a lot of times can come off as annoying or irrelevant. (Or, could probably be better answered by a Google search.)

So my question is, how do you ask about something you're curious about in a polite way? Do you filter out questions that are irrelevant to the topic at hand? Do you make sure that whoever you're asking that they can answer your question?

I suppose the topic of this post could be more aptly put, how do you ask good, not annoying, questions?