Constructed Languages. Not for nothing did JRR Tolkien call it a secret vice. It’s such a lonely hobby. You can enjoy the work of a chef or an artist or a musician even if you yourself aren’t a chef or an artist or a musician, but nobody’s going to complement the elegance of your conlang’s noun inflection system.

It’s bitterly ironic that the whole point of a language is to communicate, but the vast majority of conlangs will never be uttered by anyone other than their creators, and rather badly even then.

I don’t want to get paid for my hobbies because they wouldn’t be hobbies anymore, but it would be nice to get more than just a smile and nod from people outside the hobby now and then.

Since it seems people are sharing the fruits of their labor as well, here’s my most complete conlang: https://www.frathwiki.com/Commonthroat