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I've heard people say "So! So! So! So! So!" (or possibly "Sou! Sou! Sou!" or
maybe using "z" instead of "s" - I'm bad at hearing) when laughing in
agreement.

[When middle-aged women speak
Japanese](http://rurousha.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/when-middle-aged-women-
speak-japanese.html) gives an example of this:

```

    Oishii! (Or any other word from the options supplied below.)
    So desu ne!
    So so so so so!
    So ka!
    Ne?
    Ne!
    [continues on - too long for this question]
    
```

How is is spelt? Is it the same as the そう that's used in そう です? I tried
searching for 然う然う然う然う然う (apparently 然う is a rarer, kanji form according to
[jisho.org](http://jisho.org/words?jap=%E3%81%9D%E3%81%86%E3%81%9D%E3%81%86&eng=&dict=edict))
but couldn't find anything.
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How do I spell "So! So! So! So! So!"?
It is the そう of そうです yes. That is it. No deep meaning, nothing.
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It is そう and means yes or yeah
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"そう、そう、そう" implies strong agreement and affirmation with the remark of the
other.

To me, it's very different from simple and curt "そう." She is saying "It's
really delicious" and demanding affirmation of the other on her statement and
judgement.

We usually and casually say "そう、そう" in agreement, but don't repeat "そう" so
many times.

But she repeated it four times. She must have felt it really, really, really,
and really delicious.

By the way, we don't apply Kanji character, 然 to そう. 然 is used for the words
such as "然しながら" meaning "but, however"、"然く" meaning "like that," and a part of
nouns such as 自然、天然、黙然、憤然、歴然、端然、恬然、豁然、公然、昂然、浩然、and etc.

Just for your amusement though I understand it's off-topic, the degree of
shock you get every time you fail in the entrance exam of Tokyo University is
descibed as;

淡然 in the first challenge

冷然 in the second challenge

凝然 in the thid challenge

唖然 in the fourth challenge.

? in the fifth challenge.
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This repeated そう are kind of [aizuchi
相槌](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aizuchi). It might be regarded as a
[backchannel](http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/bc/) also. (I'm not a linguistic
expert.)

As you may know, native Japanese often use the combinations of verbal and non-
verbal backchannels like そうそう／うんうん and nodding during the conversation. [This
small study](http://sachikoide.com/Mister_O_Corpus_KaoriKobayashi.pdf) shows
some numbers.
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