A friend of mine got a job in a good company (lucky guy).

The office in which he worked was engaged in the production of high-voltage cables using German technology. And his immediate boss was the real German. So, once this German and a number of Russian specialists were engaged in discussing the problem of the breakdown of the insulation of the cables they produced. The debate was long

and boring. And then one man made a very scientific assumption:

- Probably - he says - when the workers laid the cable, they accidentally knocked a hammer on it (he said it directly). Isolation is damaged.

The German then resurrected:

How did the hammer work? He asks.

The man was embarrassed, and the rest began to explain that it was said to be an untranslatable Russian folklore.

The German answered. I know that word. I thought only electricity could do that. The hammer can do that too.