I think that his plan to become a professional athlete is a pipe dream and that he should stay in school.

The torturable class, initially limited to slaves, could be whipped, beaten with rods or chains, stretched on the rack, exposed to red-hot metal, confined in quarters that required painful constriction of their bodies […]

Hard k, t, s, ch, as distinguished from soft, g, d, z, j.

(Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia)