"What the colon does in black tie the semicolon does in khakis," says William Germano, vice president and publishing director at Routledge. "What they have in common in most academic writing is that both tend to be markers of 'watch me do something complicated.'"

The Chronicle of Higher Education > No Mark of Distinction. Some publishers and scholars want to purge the colon from book titles; the only thing that's worse: semicolons . Via: AL Daily.