"Well. That's... that's two reasons that wouldn't work, then."

Oh! Max remembers how he got on all this. Nonmagicalness, enchantments, translation, homophones... knowing about znorfblargs.

"So... back to the item-ordering thing... the translation mechanism is what translates my English into whatever you hear it as? That's... leaving aside how a fully general perfect language learning enchantment could be... psychologically invasive, what happens if I ask for a real thing whose name I know, but which I don't know anything about the details of? Say I visit some science lab, and ask someone to name an esoteric piece of equipment for me, and then come here... without knowing what it is, would I be able to order it by name?"