Jul 27, 2001 09:39
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German term

GUNTER GLIEBEN GLAUCHEN GLOBEN

German to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
I HEARD THIS IN A SONG & JUST WONDERED WHAT IT MEANT
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It means nothing.

'Gunter glieben glauchen globen' is originally from Def Leppard's "Rock of Ages" and according to the Def Leppard FAQ, it's total gibberish.

Claire
Peer comment(s):

agree Thomas Bollmann
agree ambittles
agree hoody19 : i heard it meant.."our one-armed drummer beats his wife" or sumtin like dat
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agree ncemt73 : One of the band memebers was drunk, trying to say "I dont believe in mountains moving" & it came out gungter glieben glauchen globen so they used it in their song Rock of Ages. They explained this on a VH-1 interview years ago..
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agree dswduckgmail : "Ich glaube nicht an Berge, die sich bewegen" is what the phrase was supposed to be.
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I am not sure you have the right words.

But if you remove the "G's" and a few other letters
it could be something like
"unter lieben auch loben" which does not reeeally make sense, but would mean something like
"besides loving give praise".
Like I said there are no such words, so you might want to check the spelling.
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disagree Lazyshot : no sense
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I think I made that pretty clear Lazyshot!
agree 5stryker : nice
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Among loved ones, laugh and praise

This is just a guess. If you delete the G's at the beginning of each word and you change lauchen to lachen (laugh)you come up with this meaning. As the earlier answerer said, it probably is just gibberish, but maybe not.
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agree ambittles
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Nothing in particular

Here is the "official" answer from the Def Leppard "official" web site:

http://www.defleppard.com/defleppard/faq/index.html#f51

"5.1 - What does "Gunter Glieben Glauten Globen" mean?
Nothing in particular (although the band sometimes jokingly claims it means "running through the forest silently"). It's gibberish said by producer Mutt Lange during the recordings of "Rock Of Ages", instead of the regular one, two, three, four."

Fuad
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agree doksdarlingm : This is what they say
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GUNTER GLIEBEN GLAUCHEN GLOBEN

I think you heard it in an Offspring Song, didn't you?
It means absolutely NOTHING
Peer comment(s):

neutral Chad Boutchyard : It's not gibberish, translated it means Gunther loved the Golden globe. Somit DOES mean something. As it pertains to the song? Who cares...it sounds cool
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GUNTER LOVES ROCK OF AGES

Gunter glieben glauben "globen."
Gunter loved to believe in "globes." - trans ea word to German by Google
Gunter loved to believe in big ancient rocks, each being a rock of ages.
Gunter loved to believe in rocks of ages. - substitution
"Gunter love rock of ages... by def leppard" - translation by Gunter
Reference:

http://google.com

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