[vincentchu]

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.

[icey]

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.

[Terretta]

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.