Mehitabel gets out her notebook and scrawls this and other details down. "Was English one you got or one you learned the long way?"
"Long way. Even if I had started with it, it's changed noticeably since then. I got German, Yiddish, and Hebrew."
"Oh, lovely. It's a beautiful language," Edie says, also in Hebrew. "For some reason I got the old version from before it was solely a religious language with all the swear words and so on left in; I'll try not to corrupt you too much."
"Well, I mean, you might teach me swear words but I don't think it would make me a bad person or anything."
"That much is true! Swearwords is not, however, the only possible corrupting influence a demon could have. Luckily I'm not that sort of demon."
"I don't know, I'm not one and I've never found the results appealing enough to study the methodology. Offer you candy to steal change from your mom? That's probably not a real example, it's terrible and I'm using it for mockery material next time I run into someone who fancies themselves a tempter."
"Magic. Which is about as much as I know, practically--I could recognize a summoning setup if I saw one but I couldn't put one together from scratch."
"Not that I know of specifically or I would have got them out too when I had a handy threatenable magician, but I'm sure there are some."
"The thing that the magician messed up to let you run around wherever you wanted, what would it have done if he didn't mess it up?"
"Either make a bargain with me that he was confident I would be motivated to keep or hurt me until I knew better than to cross him."
"Oh. ...Can the circles be nice and big so you could just leave the demon there and it wouldn't be cramped but it also wouldn't be able to hurt anybody back in Hell?"
"Deeeepends on the demon, not all circles are the same strength, there are demons strong enough there do not exist circles to hold them, do not summon a Duke of Hell, I repeat, do not summon a Duke of Hell."
"The circles are also very breakable from the outside. Any demon you were planning on keeping long-term you would have to be very very sure no one was going to let them out."
"Well, that and the most common kind of demon to summon are succubi, and in that case the summoner and the summonee generally want exactly the same thing."