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If I spoke with you on the phone about the contract and sent you the contract later on WhatsApp with a message please confirm the contract. And you answered with thumbs up. I would assume that you are confirming the contract and not that you received it.

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> I would assume that you are confirming the contract and not that you received it.

What’s the point of the contract section where the signature goes? It’s there to remove ambiguity surely?

That’s fine. We would both interpret it differently. A lot of reasonable people would. That’s my point. It’s not that a thumbs up can’t mean approval, but that it just as well can mean acknowledgment.

Fortunately in this case they had the opportunity to present their cases in front of a judge and get a specific determination based on the merits!

And fortunately I'm allowed to disagree with and criticize that determination. Or is your position that courts never make mistakes?

"A monk asked Tozan, "What is the Buddha?" Tozan answered, "Three pounds of flax!"

Of course not. The point is we don’t have to care what you (or I) think.

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