system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: What do Classical Studies scholars mean when they say that you "don't speak" Latin, it's only read? Can't you speak it out loud?
gpt
You can say the words out loud, but you can't really "speak" it, because it's not a living language with real speakers. You can only study it. Even if you do speak to other Latin scholars, since there aren't any native Latin speakers you won't know if you're pronouncing it like it would have been in ancient Rome.