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Not a radar screen
The display shows where aircraft are now. The controller is working with where they will be in eight minutes, which is a mental model maintained continuously and updated with every readback.
Why phraseology is rigid
Standard phrasing exists so that a transmission degraded by noise, accent or workload still carries the same meaning. It is a protocol, and deviating from it removes the error checking.