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Did anyone else notice that Satya has quite a habit of using run-on sentences? I also thought this while reading his letter to employees.

• aroch 12y ago
  It seems to be a fairly common occurrence in Indians who learned English as a second language (and I would guess other ethnic groups as well).
  • bignaj 12y ago
    Satya has been in the US for quite a while though. For a C-level exec of such a prominent company you would think an editor could help or maybe it's something he could work on personally. I tried to chalk it up to "personal style" but it's really egregious. Might be a bit beyond what can qualify as "style" and more towards the "grammatically incorrect" side of the spectrum.
    • lxmorj 12y ago
      Bike shedding!
      • bignaj 12y ago
        For any engineer/dev eloquent communication skills don't matter that much... but for a CEO they matter quite a bit!
• mahyarm 12y ago
  Describing programming details seems to encourage complicated run on sentences in my experience.
• r00fus 12y ago
  Is that possibly the culture at Microsoft? I knew a guy who moved from Intel to Microsoft and I noticed his speech tended to more verbosity after the move.
  • bignaj 12y ago
    No, it's definitely not. Some execs tend to ramble, but they don't use run-on sentences. Some of Microsoft's other execs are actually pretty staccato (Kevin Turner).