now i'm even more bemused.
i can't think of any obscure anglicisms in any of that,
let alone any rude ones.  he expressed a lack of a specific point
of contact about inferno, and i gave him three.
overgenerous if anything, if you ask me.

still, as Dan C observes and Stoppard amusingly demonstrated in
Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth (taking an idea from a discussion by Wittgenstein)
the interpretation of words can indeed be non-trivial.
Cutlery.