Directional input system with automatic correction

A text entry input system, comprising:

• a directional selection means, plus one or more buttons or equivalent user input means;
• a collection of linguistic objects;
• an output device with a text display area;
• and
• a processor which comprises an object search engine, a distance value calculation module, a linguistic object module for evaluating and ordering linguistic objects, and a selection component;
• wherein said directional selection means is used to point in a direction of each of the letters, or the letters' sub-word equivalents in each writing system, of a linguistic object, said processor calculating a distance to find letters and weight values for the letters in said pointing direction with said distance calculation module, said processor retrieving a predicted list of linguistic objects based on the letters and weight values with said object search engine, said processor evaluating and ordering said predicted list of linguistic objects with said linguistic object module, and said selection component being used to select a desired linguistic object from said predicted list of linguistic objects.