Editing Punctuation (section)

==Novel punctuation marks==
===Interrobang===
{{Main|Interrobang}}
In 1962, American advertising executive Martin K. Speckter proposed the interrobang (‽), a combination of the question mark and exclamation point, to mark rhetorical questions or questions stated in a tone of disbelief. Although the new punctuation mark was widely discussed in the 1960s, it failed to achieve widespread use.<ref name=fonthaus>{{cite web
| first = Allan
| last = Haley
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080507055249/http://www.fonthaus.com/xheight/interrobang.cfm
| title = The Interrobang Is Back
| url = http://www.fonthaus.com/xheight/interrobang.cfm
| date = June 2001
| publisher = fonthaus.com
| archive-date = 7 May 2008
| access-date = 3 December 2010
}}</ref> Nevertheless, both it and its inverted form were given code points in Unicode: {{unichar|203D|Interrobang}}, {{unichar|2E18|Inverted interrobang}}.

===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]])

==="Question comma", "exclamation comma"===
[[File:Exclamation comma 3.png|thumb|left|upright|An exclamation comma]]
An international [[patent application]] was filed, and published in 1992 under World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) number WO9219458,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=WO9219458| title = European Patent Office publication}}</ref> for two new punctuation marks: the "question comma" and the "exclamation comma". The ''question comma'' has a comma instead of the dot at the bottom of a question mark, while the ''exclamation comma'' has a comma in place of the point at the bottom of an exclamation mark. These were intended for use as question and exclamation marks within a sentence, a function for which normal question and exclamation marks can also be used, but which may be considered obsolescent. The patent application entered into the national phase only in Canada. It was advertised as lapsing in Australia on 27 January 1994<ref>Australian Official Journal of Patents, 27 January 1994</ref> and in Canada on 6 November 1995.<ref>[http://patents.ic.gc.ca/cipo/cpd/en/patent/2102803/financial_transactions.html CIPO – Patent – 2102803 – Financial Transactions<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002113219/http://patents.ic.gc.ca/cipo/cpd/en/patent/2102803/financial_transactions.html |date=2 October 2008 }}</ref>

===Others===
Other proposed punctuation marks include:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.readersdigest.ca/culture/little-known-punctuation-marks/ |title=11 Little-Known Punctuation Marks We Should Be Using |author1=Brandon Specktor |author2=Samantha Rideout |publisher=Reader's Digest Canada |date=March 20, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Snark mark]], indicating an ironic statement by putting a tilde next to terminal punctuation: {{char|.~}} for dry sarcasm, {{char|!~}} for enthusiastic sarcasm, and {{char|?~}} for sarcastic questions
* [[Rhetorical question mark]]: [[File:Irony mark full.svg|8px]]
* [[SarcMark]] for sarcasm

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