I want to bring attention to this satirical screed against pensmanship for one reason: it references D’Nealian.

If you are of a certain age (I don’t know… my age? Mid to late thirties? Okay. Let’s be honest – late thirties), then you may have been exposed to this pointless monstrosity.

D’Nealian (I didn’t even know how it was spelled until I saw this article) was some stupid thing we were taught in the third or fourth grade as a bridge between longhand print and cursive. In other words, it was some sort of reason to delay just reaching us cursive, as well as reason to take time out of our day to learn something verifiably useless – time that, if it had been used to drive home the reality of evolution, could have saved America from some of its more baffling cultural wars.