Size Venn Diagram
Size Venn Diagram
[A Venn diagram with five sets titled 'Big', 'Little', 'Large', 'Small' and 'Great'. Various words which can be prefixed by these titles are shown in the relevant segment.]
Big: Bang Theory, Enchilada, Board, Sur Little: Orphan Annie, House on the Prairie, Richard Large: format, Millimeter Telescope, Hadron Collider Small: claims court, potatoes Great: Barrier Reef, Wall of China, Depression, Terror, aunt
Big/Great: Bend, Bear Lake Big/Small: time, screen Big/Little: Dipper, Planet, lies, sister Little/Great: Blue Heron Little/Large: Professor, Forest Bat Big/Large: Toothed Aspen Large/Small: intestine, Magellanic Cloud Little/Small: wonder, soldiers Small/Great: pox, cardiac vein Large/Great: Billed Seed Finch

Big/Large/Great: hearted Big/Small/Great: end Big/Little/Small: foot Big/Little/Great: league Little/Large/Great: (none) Big/Little/Large: foundation Big/Large/Small: Eyed Conger, Blue Little/Large/Small: emerald Little/Small/Great: circle, room Large/Small/Great: flying fox
Big/Large/Small/Great: game, white Big/Little/Small/Great : world, one Big/Little/Large/Great : (none) Big/Little/Large/Small : frog Little/Large/Small/Great : (none)
Big/Little/Large/Small/Great: Island

This comic is a Venn diagram illustrating the complete set of possible intersections of five different size adjectives: "little", "large", "small", "great" and “big”. Each unique intersection contains a short list of nouns that can be preceded by each of its intersecting adjectives.
For example, "flying fox" (a type of bat) appears at the intersection of "large", "small", and "great", because the species large flying fox , small flying fox , and great flying fox all exist, but there is no such species as a "big flying fox" or a "little flying fox". Similarly, humans have organs named the small intestine and large intestine , but no "little intestine", "great intestine", or "big intestine".
Some descriptors are applied in combination to their noun, rather than individually; for example, "planet" is placed in both the "little" and "big" groups in reference to the 2008 video game Little Big Planet .
In the title text, Randall declares that he will start intentionally using term combinations that don't appear in the above diagram, presumably to ensure every intersection contains at least one term.
A similar concept can be seen in 181: Interblag , but in a tabular form rather than a Venn diagram.
The following table lists all size/noun combinations that the Venn diagram can generate, with a description of each.
[A Venn diagram with five sets titled 'Big', 'Little', 'Large', 'Small' and 'Great'. Various words which can be prefixed by these titles are shown in the relevant segment.]
Big: Bang Theory, Enchilada, Board, Sur Little: Orphan Annie, House on the Prairie, Richard Large: format, Millimeter Telescope, Hadron Collider Small: claims court, potatoes Great: Barrier Reef, Wall of China, Depression, Terror, aunt
Big/Great: Bend, Bear Lake Big/Small: time, screen Big/Little: Dipper, Planet, lies, sister Little/Great: Blue Heron Little/Large: Professor, Forest Bat Big/Large: Toothed Aspen Large/Small: intestine, Magellanic Cloud Little/Small: wonder, soldiers Small/Great: pox, cardiac vein Large/Great: Billed Seed Finch

Big/Large/Great: hearted Big/Small/Great: end Big/Little/Small: foot Big/Little/Great: league Little/Large/Great: (none) Big/Little/Large: foundation Big/Large/Small: Eyed Conger, Blue Little/Large/Small: emerald Little/Small/Great: circle, room Large/Small/Great: flying fox
Big/Large/Small/Great: game, white Big/Little/Small/Great : world, one Big/Little/Large/Great : (none) Big/Little/Large/Small : frog Little/Large/Small/Great : (none)
Big/Little/Large/Small/Great: Island
