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I guess it depends on the depth of your suffering. The two words aren't really realated, nor even, in their primary, historical definitions, that near to being synonymous.
Bathos: http://www.bartleby.com/61/28/B0112800.html
Pathos: http://www.bartleby.com/61/21/P0112100.html
Must is they've sort of fallen in to each other through apparent similarity.
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