We’ve all heard them before from listening to today’s music or merely just hanging out with your friends: curse words.

People used to be cautious while saying them, saving them for private conversations or stubbed toes, yet over the past few decades they have wholly worked their way into our culture.

The question is, have curse words become so common that they have lost their shock value?

Sophomore student Noah Tatum said: “I think it has something to do with the environment you grew up in. My parents have never sworn, or at least around me, so curse words will always come as a shock to me. I think the trend of vulgar language being used more is definitely bad for our generation.”

Freshman student Jordyn Read said: “I definitely think that the shock value of curse words has been lost. I hear kids around school swearing all the time and it doesn’t really affect me much anymore. I don’t swear so it gets under my skin a little bit but that’s about all.”

Junior student Maggie Dillman said: “Actually, I don’t really notice it anymore. I think that we kind of just say them in whatever sentence that we want to so they kind of just make sense to us now. If that made any sense, lol.”