User blog comment:Atizablaze/My first conlang experiences/@comment-79749-20100330150338

I found the same reaction here. I am in Brazil so you can imagine the hell I have to face here, as I listen to baroque music, watch films like Star Wars, read Asimov & co., write sci-fi short stories and create languages. Except for the fact that they don't usually burn people alive anymore - it does happen sometimes though -, it is medieval here. But at the age of 12 I had already learnt to live my life and leave people say their "truths" about how I should pay attention to real and srioues art forms like pop music, soap opera and - most of all - soccer. "Go ahead, wise people, go live your life and let me waste mine with my silly things."

There is one point I would like to add to the considerations about conlanging: it is an art. Like painting pictures, composing music.