It would be easy now to describe language-games in such expressions
as “in five minutes”, “half an hour
ago”.
56). Let us now have the case
of a
description of the future, a forecast.
One might, e.g., awaken the tension of
expectation in a child by keeping his attention for a considerable
time on some traffic lights changing their colour periodically.
We also have a red, a green, and a yellow disc before us and
alter
nately
48.
point to one of
these discs by way of forecasting the colour which will appear
next.
It is easy to imagine further developements of this game.