QUOTE (hellkitty @ Sep 4 2008, 06:56 PM)

EEEEEEEEEK! The D'Nealian looks an awful lot like the Palmer Method stuff they tried (unsuccesfully) to beat into me in grade school. So many horrible memories...flooding back...all those weird curlicues and loops....
The lowercase characters of D'Nealian look about like what I was taught in a small Illinois town around 1970, but the uppercase have been stripped of the flourishes I remember, with a few exceptions like the "G". (That "G" never has seemed quite right to me. And the "Q"...well.)
My mother had beautiful handwriting, and she joked about the trials of the Palmer method. But samples of Palmer-method script I've seen here usually look more like mine (was supposed to) than like hers.
One bit of closure I've achieved using fountain pens is the realization that the techniques they tried to teach me work pretty well with a nibbed pen; with a ballpoint, not so much.