Technical language terms are not based on curse words.
Well, nobody but me has ever claimed that they are—I’m just being “accusative” here, which is leading to the theme of this little note: I think much of linguistic technical terminology would make some effective educated, noninsulting taunting. Ow, you hit me, you diphthong! You spirant! I’m bringing out the plosives! Frick a tiv! In fact, fricative may be disappearing from the high school English-class curriculums (if it hasn’t already died out of pure disuse), given the seeming rise of the euphemism Jrikken to replace .. . well, not fricative, and given the likelihood that the very word inspires snickers and even snickratives .. .