22. A text input system, comprising: a direction selector operable in a coordinate system to point in a radial direction toward one or more linguistic object subcomponents; a predetermined or dynamic mapping between directions and linguistic object subcomponents; a collection of linguistic objects; an output device with a text display area; a processor, comprising an object evaluation component configured to identify at least one linguistic object based on a sequence of radial directions; and a selection component to facilitate user selection of a desired linguistic object wherein said object evaluation component matches said sequence of radial directions against predetermined sequences of directional values associated with each linguistic object and identifies at least one linguistic object whose associated directional values minimize the differences with said sequence of radial directions.
26. The system of claim 22 , where the direction selector initially points to an X-Y coordinate position and then the X-Y coordinate position is converted into said radial direction.