I like giving my jocks phrases like : dude, duuude, dudebro, bro, broseph, bromeister, and nerd bro! Basically, add a bro to everything for them. I have no idea why, but it makes me laugh every time.
I also like radical and kawabunga because of my love of the Ninja Turtles back when I was little. I also like teaching different villagers how to say "my love" in different languages. Of course, there is always sweetie, sugarpie, honey, and darling for when I'm feeling like a southern belle and it is one of my sweeter villagers. If I want to make it sassy then darling becomes darlin'.
really need to think of some uh... species.. neutral.. catchphrases, because I got hamlet to say ham ham and now literally 7/10 villagers (including WOLFGANG) say this
every time I catch hamlet in a conversation these days its just him spreading the ham ham.. today he spread it to rudy and marina
I made a mess of my island teaching animal-appropriate sounds/catchphrases. I taught Felicity "meow" thinking it was harmless enough, and then it spread like wildfire and before I knew it, Sherb and Roald are meowing too
Flora is the only one asking me about catchphrases (3 times in the last 2 days! calm down, girl!). I've kept her with her default (pinky) because I don't need Gruff or Dobie picking up some Valley Girl phrase.
I would like to get rid of Lionel's phrase, "precisely".
I try to pick from generic catchphrases of other characters. Audie now says "girlfriend" (Fuchsia's OG I believe). Merengue's default is shortcake which is super cute, but I'm keen to change it to something else food related if she asks. It would be nice for some of the other villagers though.
I play the game in my native language and I'm currently making them say cute fruit names like strawberry and raspberry
or just some general cute stuff like raindrop is always fun!
I've made Pate say "doll" and Groucho "dolly" and I'm hoping for it to catch on. My island is called Dollsgrave, so everyone calling each other doll or dolly would be super cute
Sadly, so far the only one that's spreading like a virus seems to be "nut-nut", which is frankly not that great. I gave that one to Hazel after she kept bugging me about changing her phrase and didn't know that others would pick it up.
It started as a mistake - I gave Felicity a generic "meow" since she is a cat, but then Roald and my then-Sherb picked it up, and I had a meowing penguin and goat. I thought it was pretty funny, so I'm just gonna start giving them all random animal sounds and they can mix it up however they want.
I gave Al an old catchphrase from I think New Leaf or something. "Hoo hoo ha". It caught on fast, because a lot of the other villagers are saying it, too.