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And by the same reason, nobody will give your parcel addressed to foo bar baz to your neighbor at blih blah bloh, would they?

No, but they could give it to foo bar bay which is 3 thousand miles away.

What 3 Fucks is by far the most functional of the word-as-address systems I've seen: it uses common words, and adjacent places have adjacent addresses.

It still has the problem of multiple similar words in its dictionary, but I think this could be solved by including more non-curse words. Many clean words become suggestive when adjacent to curses, so the addresses would still be filthy enough to be memorable.

"Kicks Pasta Steer" is pretty funny and I would remember it. But there's far more mundane and hard to remember ones. I can remember the number just as well.

Why do you need to remember the address next to you?

I think the point was that you cannot derive the address next to you from only the address you are at plus logic.