[lojban] is a gismu a selbri?

["Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

LFB says in chapter 2 part 1

"A selbri is not a type of word (like a 'verb' in English); it is
something that some types of words can do."

Is this correct? Does it even make sense? By this interpretation, a
gismu would not *be* a selbri, but only able to act as one. Yet I
believe that for any type of word that can act as a selbri, each word
of that type can act as a selbri, so there's really no reason not to
say that a gismu *is* a selbri. Or have I gone wrong here?

I think perhaps the author was just trying to provide some concepts to
preempt confusion over Lojban vs. English parts of speech, but thereby
ends up being slightly inaccurate.

Chris Capel
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