Read this excerpt from Mukherjee’s memoir and answer the question.

Clark, who remained in Iowa City until our youngest son finished high school, sent me newspaper accounts, and I turned them into stories. Indian friends in Atlanta took me to dinners and table gossip became stories. Suddenly, I had begun appropriating the American language. My stories were about the hurly-burly of the unsettled magma between two worlds.

Using contextual clues, what implicit meaning is there in the line “Suddenly, I had begun appropriating the American language”?

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Read this excerpt from Mukherjee’s memoir and answer the question.

Clark, who remained in Iowa City until our youngest son finished high school, sent me newspaper accounts, and I turned them into stories. Indian friends in Atlanta took me to dinners and table gossip became stories. Suddenly, I had begun appropriating the American language. My stories were about the hurly-burly of the unsettled magma between two worlds.

Using contextual clues, what implicit meaning is there in the line “Suddenly, I had begun appropriating the American language”?