Mary Kate Cary, who teaches political speechwriting at the University of Virginia, said she’s noticed that pundits who bray about quid pro quo on television never actually define it. “They say, ‘We know there was quid. Was there a quo?’” she said. “And they start dissecting the meaning of the phrase without explaining the meaning of the phrase in the first place, and I imagine if you haven’t taken some Latin, that adds to the feelingof elites who are highly educated speaking in ways no one understands.”