Oops...look at that. I just prayed to you!
Do you see the distinction?
No. Your language here is similar to a lawyer saying, “I pray the court...” which doesn’t mean pray at all. It means “beseech” or “entreat” or “ask passionately.”
But, when you speak to a dead human to request them to act into the living history of man, you are attributing to them the characteristics of God. You are praying to them because there is no means of communicating with the dead that we mortals are instructed to use. You won’t find this in the Scriptures. If anything, at least one man who thought they were like the Most High was made to eat grass... check Nebuchudnezzar.