Date:  Thu, 28 Jul 1994 19:41:35 -0400

From:  "Becky Howard, Department of Interdisciplinary Writing,

     Colgate University" <BHOWARD[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CENTER.COLGATE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Forrest Gump



I haven't read the novel nor seen the film, but I'm curious about the

representation of invariant *be* in the dialect of a white Alabaman. Is it

perhaps an attempt similar to what the scriptwriters of the film *Sergeant

York* put into Gary Cooper's mouth, as a representation of 1940's white

Tennessee speech?



Becky Howard

Department of Interdisciplinary Writing

Colgate University

BHOWARD[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CENTER.COLGATE.EDU