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In Latin, "ad hominem" would be pronounced with a silent "h" and the "i" would be a long "e" sound.
Why do we pronounce using English pronunciation?
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Because when we use Latin words or phrases in English, we almost always pronounce them phonetically or as they would be pronounced if they were English words.
The legal profession uses many Latin terms and are always pronounced phonetically. It would be too awkward to pronounce them using Latin pronunciation.
The same applies to many foreign words that have been adopted by English-speaking people.
Because we are speaking English.
If one was speaking German or French then Latin loanwords/phrases would take on German or French characteristics.
Only über-geeks actually know (or care) how the original Latin sounds.
Where did you get the idea that the h wasn’t aspirated in Latin? Every introductory Latin textbook I’ve seen has indicated that it was, and every Latin teacher I’ve ever had has pronounced it. Furthermore, the
i in "hominem" is short and thus pronounced like the short i in English. (If it were long and pronounced as "ee," the accent would be on that syllable.) So, provided we make the a of "ad" broad ("ah"), the way we say "ad hominem" in English is very close to the way the Romans, at least in the classical era, said it.