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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 132. The noun phrase today is
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quid pro quo. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here.
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Quid pro quo derives directly from Latin. So it comes directly from Latin. It could
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be translated as what for what ,this for that , or something for something. Actually
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I think this for that makes the most sense and it's the easiest to remember.
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So somebody offers this for that. So that's kind of the idea. A quid pro quo.
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So quid I think literally could mean like what. A pro is the , the word
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that means for or in exchange for. Quo also means like what or but the best
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translation is probably this for that. All right. Let's continue. We do have a
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second meaning here. In law a quid pro quo can be used as a term that implies
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sexual discrimination. Yeah. It's used a lot in those cases in which one person clearly
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offers one thing in exchange for something else or at least one of them
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is either offering or accepting probably sex or sexual favors in in exchange for
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something of high value probably. Maybe a job or some benefits or promotion or
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something like that. All right. Let's continue. Now quid pro quos
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could be considered quite normal in business, law, and political negotiations.
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Actually they are. They happen all the time
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There is often give-and-take arrangements. So like in business you
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know, if you say well if you do this for me. I'll do that for you. Or yeah. I mean
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this is a real normal part of business. So it's not by itself you know, anything
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that's bad or illegal. Now it could be though too. So let's continue here. It is
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only considered shady. Shady means dishonest or not quite moral shady, if someone
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offered or requested something that was illegal or immoral in exchange for
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something else. So a lot of times it is used that way. Well that must have just
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been a quid pro quo. He's only... he's doing this only because
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that one... that other person is offering that. All right. So let's give some
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examples here. Here's the first example. The police offered the suspect a quid
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pro quo if he rats on ... Rats on, tells on. If he rats on some bigger fish. Some
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other. Some other more important people. They will give him a more lenient
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sentence. So maybe he may still get punished but you know, instead of getting
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you know 15 years maybe only gets five years or three years or something like
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that. Or if it's a really super big fish maybe they'll even give him immunity and
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give them police protection. Either way this is a quid pro quo. Obviously this is
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not illegal. The police are offering it. So sometimes
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this is done. This is done in negotiations. Sometimes they got to let the smaller
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fish go. So they can get the bigger fish of the more important person. All right.
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Let's look at number two here. Yeah. If country A agrees to buy more
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crops from country B. Country B will lower duties. Yeah. So this is just normal
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negotiations. You know political negotiations or business negotiations.
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Yeah. If you do this for me, I'll do that for you. And you know that happens every
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day. That's normal stuff. All right. Now number
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three, there. This one is not normal. And this one both you know, works on the the
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second law one . On the sexual discrimination one. Harvey Weinstein got in trouble
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because he offered quid pro quos to actresses numerous times for big movie
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roles. He would give them a big break in key movies. A key role that could
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really make their career take off. Yes. if they repaid him with sexual favors. Okay. Even
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though, sometimes I think even kind of forced this way on some women. But first
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he might have offered them a normal you know a quid pro quo. You do this and
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I don't know we've heard many cases of course where you know women accused him
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of sexual harassment but we don't know maybe some women accepted the quid pro
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quo too. Again but this of course is one that would is definitely immoral and
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probably in many cases especially if he forced himself on on some of his victims
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you know, that would be illegal as well. So this is what we hear. So this is a
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quid pro quo. We hear it a lot in the news today. I hope you got a better feel and a
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better understanding of it. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.