RadioActiveChimp said:
His original quote would've been: "I remember that one and I agreed it sucks; however, you could have skipped it." Where would you at a conjunction? In this case, one just isn't needed; in fact, doing what you suggest would unnecessarily lengthen his writing. The purpose of the semicolon is to make writing shorter and more concise. Also, it doesn't help your argument to misspell "independent"
You're quite right, I did mispell independent. But otherwise, you're wrong. I'm not trying to be a hardass grammar nazi, I'm trying to figure out a lot of syntax myself. But according to
The Elements of Style which states:
If two or more clauses, grammatically complete and not joined by a conjunction [e.g. however], are to form a single compound sentence, the proper mark of punctuation is a semicolon.
His use of 'however' (a conjunction) means that a semicolon
is not the proper mark of punctuation.
The sentence would've read "I remember that one and I agreed it sucks; you could have skipped it."
Like I said, not trying to claim grammatical supremacy, just trying to figure out these rules myself and what you said seems to contradict them.