anti-moji

The act of spelling out the proper names for characters commonly used in texts to form visual representations. i.e. typing "semi-colon hyphen closed parenthesis" instead of :-)

It can be difficult to decipher an anti-moji, in the way it can also be very confusing to try and decipher an emoji. The anti-moji can take all the fun out of a smiley face. :)