They spoke it at about the level at which the average American Facebook user speaks English.
Tom Send a noteboard - 28/02/2013 12:40:48 AM
Letters that weren't clearly pronounced fell out, thus:
Futui puella formosa instead of Futui puellam formosam on the walls of Pompeii.
Even educated Romans, though, seemed to have elided words, such as the famous incident where Cicero says Crassus should have heeded the warning of the fig seller who was shouting out "cauneas!" (=cave ne eas).
Either way, I'll bet that the average Pompeiian spoke it better than the average Latin student of today.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Best quote regarding Latin that I've read in quite some time 
- 27/02/2013 11:13:59 AM
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A good Latin student never declines sex.
- 27/02/2013 04:45:15 PM
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*NM*
Judging by the graffiti I've seen, they didn't speak it particularly well. 
- 27/02/2013 09:05:31 PM
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They spoke it at about the level at which the average American Facebook user speaks English.
- 28/02/2013 12:40:48 AM
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Not really, other than a few allusions such as one made in Catullus' poem #84. *NM*
- 28/02/2013 11:18:58 PM
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