Comment by froobius

Funny thing is that to people who use those terms regularly, they are "stating exactly what they mean".

I.e. "increase the scope hugely", the word "scope" itself comes from greek with its core meaning revolving around "viewing" or "looking". It's only because we are all familiar with it also meaning the scale / amount of things a project should cover, that we all understand. (I guess there's a metaphor of the project "looking over" more as the number / magnitude of goals increases.)

So it shouldn't be "state exactly what you mean", because they are.

It should be more like: "state what you mean using widely used language if possible"