Fòram na Gàidhlig

Tha mi a' suidhe nam oifis, oir tha AC ann an sin agus tha i ro theth a-muigh, gun rud a dhèanamh, oir cha bhi mo cho-obraichean ann gus an t-seachdain a' tighinn. I'm sitting in my office, because there's AC there and it's too hot outside, with nothing to do, because my coworkers won't be around un...

So I've been told and would happily accept. Macbain's Etymological Dict. of Scottish-Gaelic certainly says so. Ir. rannsuighim ; from Norse rannsaka , search a house, whence English ransack . Good to know! Litir do Luchd-Ionnsachaidh #74 le Ruairidh MacIlleathain discusses this word at length (ente...

I wasn't sure where to put it, but I figured this would be a safe bet. Is rannsaich cognate to English ransack ? I see the latter comes from Old Norse, and the semantic difference between "research" and "go hurriedly through" isn't so much, so it seemed plausible enough that I th...

Tha mi a' faicinn Farscape.
I'm watching Farscape.

(Is fac the right verb for watching a TV show?)

Tha mi a' sgrìobhadh aiste gum chlas Frangaise.
I'm writing an essay for my French class.

(Is gu the right preposition here? Is there a better word than aiste for an academic paper?)

I am (obviously) new here. I'm a first-year university student studying comparative literature (as well as French, Japanese, and ancient Greek). My ancestry is Scottish, although my family has been in the United States for well over a century. I've been dabbling in Gaelic for a number of years now, ...