the broken english translation really adds to the punchline.
Note also that the broken English here is not the author, but it's Google Translate. The text has been machine translated from Russian. Also interesting that Google Translate is much more effective translating the mathematical portions than the other portions of the text. Another case of what people find hard computers find easy, and vice versa.
I'd love to capitalise on the idea somehow, just because its so counter intuitive I think. Although i fully appreciate it's not effective enough to replace spaced repetition or other formal techniques.