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There could be problems with truncation with "..." as well.

For instance, I can imagine the following trunactions:

"Anal...", "Ass...", etc.

I guess the problem really is the truncation. Hard to know what you're going to get.

I don't really think what Posterous is doing is a big deal to begin with, but I think people know that the elipses means the content has been truncated. There are enough sites out there that automatically truncate words that I don't think many people would be up in arms if they saw something that truncated down to "Anal..." or "Ass..." or whatever.

If you need to truncate the word, keep the initial letter, then use the "…" character (one char instead of 3). That lets you signify words as late as pos 24.

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