> Yeah, it's an English thing. A literal translation in Dutch would mean "explain yourself here", That's just patently untrue. The literal translation is "ik d

> Yeah, it's an English thing. A literal translation in Dutch would mean "explain yourself here", That's just patently untrue. The literal translation is "ik denk niet dat dat een goed idee is" and the better translation would be "dat is niet de bedoeling". If I got told in an interview "dat is niet de bedoeling" I'd be damn sure to rework my solution because they're clearly trying to coax me towards whatever they're looking for. And in a way it is actually a nice thing of them, because they could just say nothing and fail me out of that round of interviews.