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“It all seems pretty Orwellian,” said Kimbrough Moore, a rock climber and Yosemite National Park guide book author.

The phone had been programmed so that when a South Korean variant of a word is entered, it automatically vanishes, replaced with the North Korean equivalent - an Orwellian move.

Beers, who was surprised by the win, said the world “seems to become slightly more Orwellian with each passing day.”

As adjectives go, “Orwellian” tends to be prematurely invoked — and hyperbolically, if often in good faith.

Boyer said it speaks to a kind of “Orwellian absurdity” that “these words can only have one meaning, and it’s the meaning that they would like to politicize.”