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That doesn't really solve the problem: "Bob's Assault on Stupidity" becomes "Read more on Bob's Ass..." Arbitrary truncation of English text is guaranteed to r
by novas0x2a 16y ago
That doesn't really solve the problem: "Bob's Assault on Stupidity" becomes "Read more on Bob's Ass..."
Arbitrary truncation of English text is guaranteed to result in amusing edge cases. Besides, how often does a blog title fit into 25 - len("Read more on ") - len("...") = 9 characters? I couldn't even find a posterous that wouldn't truncate under that rule. Truncation is ugly- it should be a worst-case exception, not something applied to every single post.
- Terretta 16y agoI think kyro's point is: if you're going to truncate a word, truncate following the initial letter, then you can't possibly form an undesired word.