HELP with word

[Stella Marie Tapia]

I need help with the word phonetically spelled levaye.  i have included the statement before and the full response of the judge.  plz help it's an expedite.

MR. OROZCO:  Plaintiff counsel has never responded.  I've asked "How do you want these?"  They've never responded.  So I think the burden is on Mr.　Renick to say "This is how I want them so I can easily review them and download them to my system."  Instead of saying　-- If Produce them in hardcopy, he's going to turn around and say, "Well, now you're giving me 100 boxes of hard documents which prove no value."  And then I have to electronically download that information into his workable system.

THE COURT:  Well, that's the old school way to start into it, although, at this point it's pretty *levaye.  But it strikes me you should be making the first offer and not just standing back and asking them for a　-- to respond.  But I will hear from them in due course because, before you all leave the door here, I would like to imagine that we know which path we're going down.

[Janiece Young]

Do you have an audio clip?

[Stefanie Landa]

all I can think of is in limine instead of pretty limine

[Stella Marie Tapia]

yes.  I have listened to the audio.  the judge clearly says. "lee vaye"

[Mary K. Corcoran]

Could the word be leeway, and something else in the sentence is wrong, because they're talking about making the first offer, and they could have leeway in that?

[Stella Marie Tapia]

I checked this sentence 1,000 times against the audio and the word is clearly "levaye"  a friend of mine said that is a Yiddish word for funeral.  I plugged it in and it sort of works I think because he's saying the old fashioned way of doing things is dead.  I don't know what do you think?

[Martha R]

Is the judge Jewish?    If not, that is a big stretch.

How about you are mishearing the "pretty" and it's actually "practically vague" or "particularly vague." 

[Stella Marie Tapia]

Highberger is the judge's name.

[Janiece Young]

Are you sure he's not saying:  "pretty vague"?

[Janiece Young]

Sometimes audio gets a little corrupted.

[Mary K. Corcoran]

I think Janiece is right, pretty vague.

[Lana L. Loper]

Stella,

You probably have turned this in, my first thought, reading aloud was pretty iffy, (accent?)  but even judges misspeak or start to say a word and make it into another.  Good luck (to us all)! 

I once had a doctor mention a word so many times I decided NOT to ask the spelling, figuring surely I can find it, but no, that wasn't the case - I called him (as I said, he said it MANY times) and he said, oh, that's MY word spelled ...   new words every day... gotta love it - reporters: we sweat the small stuff!