Italian: asteggiatureEnglish translation: basic letter strokes 
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Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy | | Italian term or phrase: asteggiature | | From a text about infant education. "Fatto cio' si insegna al bambino a riempire tutto l'interno della figura disegnata a mezzo di tratteggiature, maneggiando il lapis come una penna da scrivere quando si eseguiscono le asteggiature." |
| | | handwriting practice / exercises | Explanation:
unless they specifically mean downstrokes
asteggiatura: l’esercizio dell’asteggiare
asteggiare: fare le aste come esercizio preparatorio per imparare a scrivere
aste: breve linea diritta tracciata spec. come esercizio preparatorio di scrittura: fare le aste; a. della lettera, tratto verticale di una lettera
(De Mauro Paravia) |
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 Russell Jones
United Kingdom
| Note from asker to answererThanks Russell. I had a sneaking suspicion this was the answer. The client prefers "basic letter strokes" - a form of handwriting exercises.
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| handwriting practice / exercises
Explanation:
unless they specifically mean downstrokes
asteggiatura: l’esercizio dell’asteggiare
asteggiare: fare le aste come esercizio preparatorio per imparare a scrivere
aste: breve linea diritta tracciata spec. come esercizio preparatorio di scrittura: fare le aste; a. della lettera, tratto verticale di una lettera
(De Mauro Paravia)
| Russell Jones
United Kingdom
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Native speaker of:  English
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| Note from asker to answerer| Thanks Russell. I had a sneaking suspicion this was the answer. The client prefers "basic letter strokes" - a form of handwriting exercises. |
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| drawn strokes
Explanation:
"Asteggiare" means "to draw strokes; to do writing exercises."
www.garzantilinguistica.it/interna_eng.html
the term "drawn strokes" gives 537 Google hits. Here are 2 examples of its usage:
1. "Our system directly uses user-drawn strokes to infer the sketches representing the same scene from different viewpoints."
www-sop.inria.fr/reves/publications/data/2001/BCD01/
2. "Chinese or Japanese languages are built of manually drawn strokes or lines."
www.springerlink.com/index/L94YMNUQAW6FPG3D.pdf
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Note added at 1 day1 hr (2006-12-02 16:44:34 GMT)
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I am adding a quotations regarding lessons of drawing strokes.
"A Method to Create Colored Pencil Style Images by Drawing Strokes Based on Boundaries of Region."
www.cs.sunysb.edu/~cgi_main_files/program.htm
"...drawing strokes. For the sky, subtly crisscross your strokes and for hills, a diagonal stroke best defines their sloping nature."
www.kysoy.org/news/art%20forms.pdf
| Pnina
Israel
Native speaker of:  Hebrew
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