In general, it's because different languages have sufficiently different semantics that you can not in general use a term from one language on another.

You might think to yourself "Surely this parameter/argument thing is such a fundamental bit of terminology that it would apply to all languages?", to which I'd point out that there's an entire paradigm to which this distinction doesn't, strictly speaking, apply: Concatenative languages. Further, in Perl 5, functions and methods don't really have "parameters" at all. (Prototypes permit some optional, complicated, and generally not used stuff.) Also, in a language that permits equational reasoning it's not clear to me that the distinction has the same meaning, though I'll concede that's a more subtle point.

I'm not aware of very many terms that can be strictly applied across all languages. Even something as innocuous as "int" has significantly different semantics in different languages (does it roll over or transparently upgrade to a BigInt?). You could call it a "machine int", perhaps, but that terminology isn't necessarily what I'd call "common use" even if most people will know what you mean.