Programming is very symbolic whereas natural language is more phonetical, so using one in terms of the other will always be awkward. I feel the best strategy is

Programming is very symbolic whereas natural language is more phonetical, so using one in terms of the other will always be awkward. I feel the best strategy is just to let variable names, for example, be pithy or terse and just use comments to compensate; this is because I’ve found comments are still necessary even with long semantic variable names.