Your story is important.

[TiredKungfu]

"Your story is important."

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I'm hoping to use the Latin for a t-shirt design. "Your story is important" is a phrase that we use often, and it means that a person's individual story, the narrative of their life, is worthy of knowing. The quote isn't gender-specific, as it's directed to every person who reads it.

Thanks!

 

[Pacifica]

Hello,

Maybe: historia tua pondus habet.

 

[TiredKungfu]

Thanks Pacifica! We use the idea of writing or telling one's story (their history, present and future) a lot, so I'm wondering how narratus would compare with historia? And would sonticus work?

 

[scrabulista]

Narratus is a rarer word. It is the 4th part of the verb narro - so in that sense it means "the thing told."
sonticus is also rare.

 

[Pacifica]

Narratus could work, though it's a rather rare word. A more common word of similar meaning would be narratio, which I think might fit well enough. Sonticus means more like "serious/severe" in a bad sense, as in a serious illness.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059:entry=narratus2

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=narratio&fromdoc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=historia&fromdoc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059

 

[TiredKungfu]

Thanks scrabulista and Pacifica! So this might work? Narratio tua pondus habet.

 

[Pacifica]

I think so.