So over the years I've improved that, but also I'm confused as to what type of speech people respond to. Depending on how things are phrased or structured, some people won't give the idea the light of day. Humour is also some people don't pick up on, I try and lace my comments with lots. But it seems people here follow a different, more mature sense of humour. Where as I personally laugh at the obscure.
"Cats deserve food"
Well, after being reamed out by a no-nothing colleague I don't feel like typing anything anymore.
You have to change stuff like this: "Lincoln, Jefferson, Clinton: All great Presidents" to "Great Presidents include: Lincoln, Jefferson and Clinton". Otherwise their pipeline stalls, and they have to go back and look up those names now that they have a context. I think that's also why people have problems with T-SQL as opposed to other languages.
It's bizarre, and one of the social cues I never really picked up on, despite the fact that people didn't understand me as well.