renaming reversals

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 15 Dec 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Dark Inquisitor	15 Dec 2004
Background ; a recent quote from Diana: "Fulgour: Does this mean that when you read the Tarot, you don't read "reversals". (God, I hate that word. Why are there so many dumb words when it comes to the Tarot? Why didn't people try and use ELEGANT words when they had to give more technical terms to the Tarot. Now we're stuck with "reversals" and "feedback"... Sigh...)" From this thread: http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=34633 Which made me think it might be a little bit of fun to think of new terms for reversed & reversals: Flippage Surprisals Constipations Misbegotten Shadowed Delinquent Contrary Bedamned Deflated Crunk

Fulgour	15 Dec 2004
Intuitive Readers: Respecting one's inner voice is both a joy and a responsibility. Allowing reversals may be a way of connecting on a deeper level, and when this awareness has been sensed it is as natural to follow it as ever may be. ~Fulgour :) * According to Carl Sandburg, homespun Tarotbard, Abraham Lincoln's favourite names for Reversals: The Prairie Years: Flingnogg Kremlochs Burgle Spindlings Phrump Bingwads * The War Years: Twillbean Gimbly Habberstaffe Skolknot Bremery Grink

littlehermit	15 Dec 2004
Handstands (except for Le Pendu)

Fulgour	15 Dec 2004
littlehermit wrote: Handstands (except for Le Pendu) He could be a Las Rever.

Goldenhair	16 Dec 2004
Bunk Funk

WhiteRaven	16 Dec 2004
Dark Inquisitor wrote: Background ; a recent quote from Diana: "Fulgour: Does this mean that when you read the Tarot, you don't read "reversals". (God, I hate that word. Why are there so many dumb words when it comes to the Tarot? Why didn't people try and use ELEGANT words when they had to give more technical terms to the Tarot. Now we're stuck with "reversals" and "feedback"... Sigh...)" From this thread: http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=34633 Which made me think it might be a little bit of fun to think of new terms for reversed & reversals: Flippage Surprisals Constipations Misbegotten Shadowed Delinquent Contrary Bedamned Deflated Crunk I personally like "Delinquent" and "Bedamned"... "Delinquent" is just perfect when the cards are playing tricks on you. ;)

Fulgour	16 Dec 2004
"Tessellation" is the standard reference provided by The House of Reversals Freeport, Illinois USA

Majecot	17 Dec 2004
Hmmm elegant words? I am not sure about that ...but a little search in the the Thesarsus came up with this: Trying to stay away from the completely negative ones of course. an overturning inversion contradiction opposition antithesis, retroversion transposed

HOLMES	17 Dec 2004
i love naming the reversed cards reversals , then i get to call the normal cards uprightals :) i would call in lieu of reversals being no longer fashionalbe and since you already used shadowed d.i. i would use either blockages or repressals

Fulgour	08 Feb 2005
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Rosanne	08 Feb 2005
Love them all folks (especially Abes). My offering is not elegant, I have always called them crabcards. A friend calls them Dorsums.

Simone	08 Feb 2005
carwheel :D :laugh:

LadyMedusa	08 Feb 2005
Confuddlements

AmyV	09 Feb 2005
Confusals? Denials? Rebels without a cause?

Cerulean	09 Feb 2005
Diminished Shadow energy Underlying current Underworld Root An opposing theme Something to consider

ncefafn	09 Feb 2005
Vertically-challenged

Fulgour	09 Feb 2005
Deutsch Treat Of the cards (fusselstoph-gretslung) made by hand (bhrieghen), with not the forward direction (ahrmenstenghziet) given by the known eye (ienghrentslerfarb) with a looking to be so observed.

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