"::Do I have to repeat ?

1. Karadžić was/is esteemed as an ethnographer, reformer of Serbian langauge and culture, as well as folklorist.

2. Karadžić's work consisted, among other things, in misappropriation of Croatian cultural heritage 8the balald ""Hasanaginica"", first published by Fortis, has nothig to do with Serbs-or, Bosnian Muslims, for that matter. It is a purely croatian song which VK ""sold"" as a ""Serbian song"".) Also, his work in lexicography is unthinkable without Croatian heritage-for instance, in his 1847 translation of the New Testament, he explicitely stated he had coined ca. 300 new words. Later investigations http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~vbockho/vbockhopublikationen.htm have shown that Vuk has simply took more than 90% of his ""new words"" from Joakim Stulli's Croatian dictionary.

3. but, it's the ideology that matters. Starčević had completely unmasked Karadžić's myth on štokavians-Serbs. And this part of Karadžić's ideology is what even contemporary Croatian linguists find reprehensible: http://www.matica.hr/MH_Periodika/vijenac/1999/135/tekstovi/08.htm, http://www.matica.hr/MH_Periodika/vijenac/1999/138/tekstovi/06.htm  

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