Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in secrets.

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What does the following sentence mean?

"Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in secrets.":-|:-|
 
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Re: Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in screts.

In what context did you find this sentence?
 

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Re: Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in screts.

No ones give a help here?
 

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Re: Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in screts.

Would you mind answering the question in post #2 first?
 

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Re: Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in screts.

We can't understand the sentence without more context.
 

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Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in secrets."

Four social trends have worked together to eradicate people's belief in secrets.

Does that help?
 

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Re: Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in screts.

[STRIKE]No ones give a[/STRIKE] Can anyone please help? [STRIKE]here?[/STRIKE]
See above replies.
 

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Re: Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in screts.

For more details, as follow:
"Along with the natural fact that physical frontiers have receded, four social trends........"
 

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Re: Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in screts.

For more details, as follow:
"Along with the natural fact that physical frontiers have receded, four social trends........"

A mere fragment; not helpful. Give us enough to know what the person was talking about. Perhaps a paragraph or so.
 

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Re: Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in screts.

... and tell us where you found it and who wrote it.
 

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Re: Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in screts.

I cannot find your sentence in your link.
 

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Re: Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in screts.

No ones can help?
 

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Re: Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in screts.

[STRIKE]No ones can help?[/STRIKE] Can/Can't anyone help me?

Please read post 12. Instead of providing links that we have to click on and then search for text, please take the time to type the text you don't understand into your posts so that we can read it direct from the forum.
 
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Re: Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in screts.

Which part do you not understand?
 

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Re: Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in screts.

please take the time to type the text
It takes a matter of seconds to copy and paste.
 

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Re: Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in screts.

It takes a matter of seconds to copy and paste.

Exactly! Though it then takes a few more seconds to check that copying and pasting hasn't messed up the format etc. However, the fact remains that we want the text in a post on the forum, not in a link.
 

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Re: Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in screts.

Though it then takes a few more seconds to check that copying and pasting hasn't messed up the format etc.
Clicking on 'paste as plain text' would spare you the trouble.
 

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Re: Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in screts.

Which part do you not understand?
All parts!
First, "four social trends" means four social facts?
 

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Re: Four social trends have conspired to root out belief in screts.

'Trends' and 'facts' have different meanings in your native language.
 
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