Ack, you’re entirely right. “Mark” is somewhat ambiguous to me without context, I think I had imbued it with some measure of goalness from the GP’s use.
I have a bad habit of uncritically imitating peoples’ word choices within the scope of a conversation. In this case, it bit me by echoing the GP’s is-ought confusion… yikes!
Ack, you’re entirely right. “Mark” is somewhat ambiguous to me without context, I think I had imbued it with some measure of goalness from the GP’s use.
I have a bad habit of uncritically imitating peoples’ word choices within the scope of a conversation. In this case, it bit me by echoing the GP’s is-ought confusion… yikes!