Editing Punctuation (section)

===Predecessors of emoticons and emojis===
The six additional punctuation marks proposed in 1966 by the French author [[Hervé Bazin]] in his book {{lang|fr|Plumons l'Oiseau|italic=yes}} ("Let's pluck the bird", 1966)<ref>{{Citation|last=Bazin|first=Hervé|title=Plumons l'oiseau|publisher=Éditions Bernard Grasset|location=Paris (France)|year=1966|page=142}}</ref> could be seen as predecessors of [[emoticon]]s and [[emoji]]s.

These were:<ref>[http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4256.pdf Revised preliminary proposal to encode six punctuation characters introduced by Hervé Bazin in the UCS] by Mykyta Yevstifeyev and Karl Pentzlin, 28 Feb. 2012</ref>
* the "irony point" or "[[Irony punctuation#Irony mark|irony mark]]" ({{lang|fr|point d'ironie}}: [[File:point d'ironie (Hervé Bazin).svg|10px]])
* the "love point" ({{lang|fr|point d'amour}}: [[File:point d’amour (Hervé Bazin).svg|15px]]) [[File:Point d'amour (Hervé Bazin) – variant.svg|thumb|A point d'amour mark, or "love point"]]
* the "conviction point" ({{lang|fr|point de conviction}}: [[File:point de conviction (Hervé Bazin).svg|8px]])                                                                                                                                   
* the "authority point" ({{lang|fr|point d'autorité}}: [[File:point d'autorité (Hervé Bazin).svg|8px]])
* the "acclamation point" ({{lang|fr|point d'acclamation}}: [[File:point d'acclamation (Hervé Bazin).svg|11px]])
* the "doubt point" ({{lang|fr|point de doute}}: [[File:point de doute (Hervé Bazin).svg|7px]])