A query on translation

[Terrance]

Well, you really should get out and listen to people. A Googled sample
doesn't prove my point, you have to get out and listen to real people
talk on the street. That's where I hear people saying "interested on"
all the time. 


When I replied to Otto, I simply let him know that he was being
understood. I understood exactly what he meant. I understood him and I
suspect we all understood him because it's quite common to say or write
"interested on" and because "interested on" and "interested in" are
easily understood as meaning the same thing. I was not sitting here with
my red pen ready to correct him and launch into a  prescriptive grammar
lesson on the use of in/on. So, I did not mislead Otto as you claimed. 

Malignd wrote:
> 
> Well, turns out you're right; "interested on" is very
> common.  Here are a few examples, googled at random:
> 
> I need to make contact with companies interested on
> exporting AFS cattle to Mèxico.  We are studing
> between Australia or New Zeland posibilities.
> 
> ***
> 
> Interested on your business offer.  We are one of the
> fastest grown Internet trade lead portal, have more
> than 10000 member join us last 6 month, ton of buyer
> is looking for your product, hurry join us with free
> membership, post your offer, open your own show room,
> even submit your website to our business search
> engine.
> 
> ***
> 
> So you are interested on  me, huh?  I am Ronald F.
> Tagra, 20-year old, from the Philippines. I was born
> in Sogod, a small town located between the two legs of
> Southern Leyte. We live in the small, quiet, simple,
> and peaceful village called San Roque. I have 2
> brothers, Reynan, 15, and Rodney, 12. They are
> studying at Southern Leyte State College of Science
> and Technology with the same as my interest,
> Electronics.
> 
> ***
> 
> Is there anyone interested on mutation detection on
> CFTR patients originating from the Middle East with
> variable phenotypic expression?
> Haleh Akhavan-Niaki
> Genetic laboratory
> Amirkola Children Hospital
> Babol , Amirkola
> IRAN
> 
> ***
> 
> Perhaps there are not a lot of people interested on
> buying a portable 2600 as for thinking on produce it
> at a large scale, but as I said, it is challenge for
> me (and who knows? maybe there are enough people
> interested). As for the other part of the question,
> the 2600 VCS is one of the most ever sold video game
> console, and there are still a big community of Atari
> 2600 lovers, programmers and collectors.
> 
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