ove language as I was growing up. I loved books. I loved language as much as music. But that sense of losing language was a very, very powerful and potent lesson in the importance of language. And so, indeed from then on, my struggle was for English to inhabit me and to acquire enough command of it so that it would articulate the world and so that it would express the world -- both exterior and interior.
Consequently, Eva experienced emotional baggage after being forced to unwilling adapt to her new environment not through a Polish axis, but an English axis which she felt induced linguistic separation. In Poland, she had the freedom of identifying her surroundings and in return practice the freedom of expression based on facts that she had a grasp of being and was able to connect the signifier with the signified hence creating sense and sensibility. It is this concept of linguistic separation that caused her to lose the ability to achieve sense and sensibility from her reasoning that when she began the translation process from Polish to English, and vice-versa, there would be an intermediate reaction ("polot," "recepta," "kogelmogel," "banieczki"). This intermediate reaction by her not being able to grasp the concept of how objects with the same name were considered different, or how each object in Polish had a distinctive name, whereas in English names for objects could encompass a variety of things, caused her to isolate herself from the outer world due to the agony that she experiences from objects losing flavor in their meanings and purpose of expression.
"The signifier has become severed from the signified. A word like 'river' has no accumulated associations for me and it does not give off the radiating haze of connotation. It does not evoke."
Eva was to stubborn to accept how some words were not the same in English as they were in Polish because of the way the meaning...