Diagram it in your head.

I had an ex-nun teaching my combined 7th and 8th grade ALA. (Advanced Language Arts; public school). She taught us to diagram at the board. Me, I was pretty good at it. Some people, it's hard for them to see where things go -- they like to stick to a basic pattern chart, and get all rattled when someone deviates.

Let me see if I can be of help with this sentence, reportedly by Rush Limbaugh: (Not sure, but I'm going to guess it was spoken -- it reads that way, and few write as they speak.)

"We start analyzing these things rationally or logically or logically, it's not going to make any sense."

OK, so think of punctuation marks as signposts, there to help your reader. Where do you put them to help? And show the "unspoken" words in parentheses, if it helps you fill in what's missing in order to help you diagram.

If we add a comma after the first "logically"; maybe make the second (comma) into an ellipses to insert the pause (a dash would work too); and put in the missing verb early on... it reads like this:

"We (had better) start analyzing these things rationally or logically, or logically ... it's not going to make any sense."

(Does) That help any? Even without context clues, it should make sense what the original intent was with the words chosen. No need even to draw out the diagram; you can now see it -- the structure working -- in your head.

Instead of criticizing what's perfectly understandable to others, or perhaps critiquing with the goal of bringing the speaker's choice of language more into conformity with what your ear has been trained to expect -- I hate that; why not learn the complexity of diagramming in your head, so you can ride comfortably along with where the speaker is steering you with his deliberately chosen words?

Don't be afraid of going someplace unfamiliar. Don't miss out because it's not what you know and therefore "doesn't make sense". What is easiest on the ear is not necessarily the simplest. You just have to challenge yourself, and not expect every idea to be delivered in the manner, perhaps, to which one has become accustomed.

That's the trouble with having everything served up for you. You miss out on so much. As if you're blind to it, literally.