Publishing Today: Are There Too Many Colons? That would be the punctuation mark, of course. A very crisp overview of the trendy titular demarcations and their pitfalls. Good thing they haven't outlawed colons in college term papers -- I was an English major, we're required to use at least one. I believe I wrote about Nabokov under this heading: "'She had tabooed my pin': Invented Language as a Signifier of Disgust and Desire in Lolita." A+, baby!