Flip Knit - Directional Decreasing
Annie Modesitt is a nut.  She knits to live and lives to knit, and nothing makes her happier than the faraway look new knitters get on their faces when they mistress (or master) a new technique. She names her decreases K2tog-L and K2tog-R to signify left and right slanting 2-stitch knit decreases, respectively.  (Revolutionary - naming a decrease based on the way it looks when finished!)