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> 「この寒いのによく山へなんて行ったねェ。 **そんで、いたの** ？」  
>  You went to places like the mountains often in these cold days, right? And,
> there was...?  
>  「アハハー、 **いたじょいたじょーっ** 。」

Firstly, how should I understand そんで、いたの? Is it like an incomplete question
inviting the listener to finish the sentence? e.g.

> So you went to the zoo and you saw...?  
>  That's right. I saw an elephant.

Secondly, what is the meaning of the じょ/じょー in the response?
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grammar colloquial-language sentence-final-particles
Sentence ending じょ
Another translation could be:

> It's so cold, and yet you're able to go to places like mountains. So, did
> you?

The それで、いたの？ is like, "so, were you there?" or "so, did you go?" if the
dialect drops the small つ.

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According to this
[question](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1459356054):
「じょ」 comes from the Wakayama-dialect and is used in place of the sentence
final 「よ」.

The 「いたじょ」is like 「いたよ」, "I was there" or "I went there" if the dialect drops
the small つ.
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そんで、いたの？ (= それで、いたの？) means "And, was (it) there?" "And, did you see/find (it)
there?" そんで is a colloquial, collapsed way of pronouncing それで. The subject for
the verb いた(居た) is left out.

いたじょいたじょ (= いたぞいたぞ) literally means "(It) was there, (it) was there." This is
how 山田くん in anime ちびまる子ちゃん usually talks (e.g. 「～だじょー。」「～したじょー。」 ). I think
young children tend to pronounce the sentence-final particle ～ぞ as ～じょ, though
it could be a regional dialect.

> "(I'm surprised that) You managed to go to the mountains in such a cold day.
> And, was it there? / And, did you find it there?"  
>  "Ahaha, yes, it was there! / yes, I found it there!"

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By the way, the よく means "manage to (do something difficult)", not "often."
Eg:

>   * 君、 **よく** 行ったね。  
>  What a surprise you managed to go.
>   * **よく** まあ無事に帰ってこられましたね。  
>  How lucky you got back safe and sound!
>
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