19. A computer readable storage medium tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a digital data processing machine to perform text input operations comprising: receiving machine-readable signals representing a series of user-submitted directional inputs entered via a directional input tool, the series having an order; where directional inputs of the directional input tool correspond to different linguistic object subcomponents according to a current mapping; for each user-submitted directional input, based upon that directional input alone, estimating multiple corresponding linguistic object subcomponents that the user might have intended by such directional input; assembling the different ones of the estimated linguistic object subcomponents to construct multiple different proposed linguistic objects that the user might have intended by the series of directional inputs, where each proposed object includes one estimated linguistic object subcomponent for each user-submitted directional input, the linguistic object subcomponents occurring in the proposed object in the same order as the series of user-submitted directional inputs; facilitating selection of a desired one of the proposed objects.
19. A computer readable storage medium tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a digital data processing machine to perform text input operations comprising: receiving machine-readable signals representing a series of user-submitted directional inputs entered via a directional input tool, the series having an order; where directional inputs of the directional input tool correspond to different linguistic object subcomponents according to a current mapping; for each user-submitted directional input, based upon that directional input alone, estimating multiple corresponding linguistic object subcomponents that the user might have intended by such directional input; assembling the different ones of the estimated linguistic object subcomponents to construct multiple different proposed linguistic objects that the user might have intended by the series of directional inputs, where each proposed object includes one estimated linguistic object subcomponent for each user-submitted directional input, the linguistic object subcomponents occurring in the proposed object in the same order as the series of user-submitted directional inputs; facilitating selection of a desired one of the proposed objects. 21. The medium of claim 19 , where the assembling operation further comprises ordering the proposed linguistic objects according to one or more of the following: word length, ordinal ranking, weighting value of proposed linguistic object subcomponents, frequency of general usage, recency of use, appearance in a user-defined list.