I swear

When I speak Danish, I swear in English. I am much more inclined to throw in a ‘shit’ or ‘fuck’ (pardon my French) in a sentence than I am to use the Danish translation. By doing this, I think that I somehow distance the word from its actual meaning. But now that my everyday language of communication is English, I have become a lot more aware of what I am actually saying when I use these swearwords. Nonetheless, I feel that after coming to MUWCI, my tendency to swear has increased.
Why do we swear? I know that many of my peers use swearwords to a much wider extent than I do, but I still find myself swearing more than I need to.
Would cutting out the use of swearwords from my everyday language limit my ability to express myself, or would it perhaps challenge me to describe how I feel more precisely? If I could not just throw in an arbitrary swearword in an otherwise completely valid sentence, I would have to find an alternative that actually expressed what I wanted to express rather than just being a rude addition to a sentence. A curse adds no real substance to a sentence and most swearwords seem to have lost their actual meaning completely. In fact, the extensive amount of swearing degrades the emphasis that each swearword puts on a sentence. It is a vicious circle. The more we swear, the more we need to swear in order to express the same amount of shock, awe, frustration, etc.
Would I swear if no one around me did? At home, one of my closest friends is very religious, and in her social circle as well as upbringing, swearing has been completely off the table. Whenever I am around her, I become very aware of the swearwords I use. In MUWCI, I do not give it a thought, since the people around me swear just as much as I do. If this was a ‘swear-free’ community however, I doubt that I would use the rude words as much as I do now, if at all.
Is this perhaps a pattern of behavior that can be transferred to other areas? Swearing is a very minor part of our interaction, but is the way in which my swearing seems to have increased since I came to MUWCI a sign that I have effectively let the habits of the people around me alter mine? I essentially see the habit of swearing as a negative thing. If it is something you cannot control, the image you project of yourself seems immature and somewhat aggressive. However, I have taken on the habit of swearing, even if unconsciously. I believe this model to be true for a number of other areas in MUWCI. When you gather people from around the world and expect them to fit into one community, some people will adjust to the norms of the community and the people around them.