" Just for the record."
Thanks. I'll give Bogdan a history lesson.
I am curious if Bogdan knows all this. Especially the role of Vuk Stefanovich-Karadzhich as a useful fool for the Austrians (he was sponsored by Bartholomew Kopitar, Austrian Emperor's personal Court Censor). The fact that Vuk converted to Roman Catholic faith while in Vienna is cleverly suppressed in Serbia to this day as "irrelevant". The consequences of his reforms are in large part responsible for chaos Serbia is in today linguistically and culturally, the sad level of her national education, even literacy (which, ironically, his system was supposed to eradicate), and many other things.
One thing is for sure: his work was much more profitable for the Croatians who finally got "their" literary language), and Austrians, who gained politically between 1950 and 1903 by alienating Serbs from Russians and eliminating Russian influence in the Balkans (both of which were absolutely essential for the Berlin-Baghdad Axis).