I know my partner well enough, so I'm not worried about communication with her, but what's hard about communication is that some people take things literally, s

I know my partner well enough, so I'm not worried about communication with her, but what's hard about communication is that some people take things literally, some people try to read into questions what isn't there, and some people ask ambiguous questions. I've gotten feedback from some people that my communication is too terse and from other people that it is too longwinded. I can adapt to people I communicate regularly with (like my partner, people on my team, etc.), but it is not possible to do anything with that feedback in terms of first time communication or communication with infrequent collaborators.