asteggiature

English translation: basic letter strokes

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Italian term or phrase:	asteggiature
English translation:	basic letter strokes
Entered by:	Sonia Hill

15:23 Dec 1, 2006

Italian to English translations [PRO]
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."

Sonia Hill KudoZ activity Questions: 188 (none open) (1 without valid answers) (8 closed without grading) Answers: 277 United Kingdom
Local time: 03:40

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)

Selected response from:

Russell Jones
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:40

Grading comment

Thanks Russell. I had a sneaking suspicion this was the answer. The client prefers "basic letter strokes" - a form of handwriting exercises.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

handwriting practice / exercises

Russell Jones

drawn strokes

Pnina

Answers

30 mins confidence:

handwriting practice / exercises

Russell Jones
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:40
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 19

Grading comment

Thanks Russell. I had a sneaking suspicion this was the answer. The client prefers "basic letter strokes" - a form of handwriting exercises.

1 day 1 hr confidence:

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 forms.pdf

Pnina
Israel
Local time: 05:40
Native speaker of:

Hebrew
PRO pts in category: 4

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