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Comment by johansch | Hacker News Reader

The frontpage (http://www.ycombinator.com) now has a quote from Satya Nadella:

“It’s fantastic to see the work Y Combinator is doing to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in the startup community and Hacker News is one of my favorite sources of pointers to hackers and their hacks!”

What's his user name?

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I'm not saying he doesn't have a user name but a user name is not required to read HN and click on the links.

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.

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).

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.

Bike shedding!

For any engineer/dev eloquent communication skills don't matter that much... but for a CEO they matter quite a bit!

Describing programming details seems to encourage complicated run on sentences in my experience.

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.

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).

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