Amos Teo
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Amos Teo
@mossinante.bsky.social
Data scientist | Industry linguist | PhD
Birds, plants, languages, transit, climate
Ex-Amazon, ex-Meta, AGI is a scam
Vancouver, BC
He/him 🌈
Part of me wonders how many people didn’t choose “elbows up” cos they were like, “that’s 2 words!”
December 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
And the Kang part relates to the kangchu 港主 system named for the heads of the clans that controlled specific parts of the riverbank (but the chu here is 主). We also have places called Lim Chu Kang and Yio Chu Kang
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangchu...
Kangchu system - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
As a non-Canada and non-US passport holder, and working for an org with “queer” in its name, I’ve long made that conclusion.
It sucks cos there are people I wanna see in WA state and I’m soooo close to the border 😢
December 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Well this article by Celeste and folks at UWA just came out, but it’s on inequity and accent modification. I’ve seen articles on rudeness to chatbots, but not linguistic research per se theconversation.com/we-gotta-act...
‘We gotta act white’: how voice recognition tech fails for Aboriginal English speakers
Voice-operated technology can’t cope with non-mainstream varieties of English.
theconversation.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Emails sent off.

Signed off with:
"Right on red? WRONG on red!" 😤
December 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM