The concept is not a foreign one to campuses and colleges. Living in a tight-knit community leads to development of inside words, phrases, or names unique to that community. And Bates is no exception. Offering an academic agreement is Professor of English Carole Taylor. A natural language is connected to a group of people in a specific region for a significant period of time, whereas an artificial language has no group you can identify by place or from generation to generation.
Natural language has to do with actual relationships among people.
What's unique about college lingo is that the language is neither artificial nor natural, yet has elements of both. But there is something natural about it because you pass it along through contact. It passes from generation to generation so that you can track the change. And change there is. You were not particularly exciting or cool.