On the expanding frontier of Newspeak

Scrabble players quitting competitive game after 400 offensive terms banned from words list

Mattel's global head of games, Ray Adler, said: "We looked at everything we were doing as a company and opportunities to be more culturally relevant."

Resulting in "bitter spats," say some.

"Newspeak is a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit the individual's ability to think and articulate "subversive" concepts…," explains Wikipedia.