The DOR suggested at oral argument that the Court should look to the state of mind of Defendant Lay to intuit that the request is more narrowly than the actual language of the request.
Granting power of attorney in the language of the scholars is a permissible request for legal assistance for the attorney to act as one's representative.
Apart from allowing callers to make a variety of requests in many different ways, natural-language systems can understand a caller's request even if specific words may never actually be spoken.
In a letter to the CIRA Board (I was a member of the board at the time), it delivered an official request for multilingual domains to allow for the use of French language characters.