ABSTRACT
In Chapter 3.3, we referred to the need on some occasions to palliate the effects of the use of calque by some form of compensation. The example we gave was the insertion of 'You know the saying' before 'A day for you, a day against you', to make it clear that this is a proverb and not an original formulation. This example is the tip of an iceberg. Compensation, in one or another of its many forms, is absolutely crucial to successful translation. In this chapter, we shall look more closely at what compensation is and is not, and at a few of the forms it can take.
