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Old July 16th, 2008, 01:35 AM
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Originally Posted by George View Post
The old saying goes some thing like:

If it looks like a duck, moves lika a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck...

One could safely surmise
the same holds true for a bribe.
Not necessarily, as a bribe is a man-made word to help others convey a meaning of a number of actions related to such, and has also developed a number of connotations and interpretations over 100's of years across 100's of languages, but,

A duck is one word that specifically names a specific number of species that have a specific number of anatomical features, and is not truly subject to much interpretation at all.
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