I'm desperately trying not to be greedy, and somehow that worked with languages like Chinese and Japanese. I feel not a slightest impulse for them. Maybe it has to do precisely with the fact that they are so popular and omnipresent and thus... not "cool" to me.

Whereas, well, the titular Celtic languages - they were at times a desperate craving, which... well, made no sense in many respects. And I still have other cravings like that. I've mentioned Greek, but also Italian and Latin...

Maybe, even though I don't collect any physical things, that's how the collector's instinct manifests in me. And the exotic theme of my collection is Indo-European languages...

And there's a conflict. Probably it's similar with collectors. When they buy things that really don't have any use, but cost a lot. So my "collectibles" while I've been managing to obtain them without investing much, if any, money, they do take a lot of time.