Bestow Curse and such

[Vendis]

Bestow Curse has a

Verbal Component:

Verbal (V): A verbal component is a spoken incantation. To provide a verbal component, you must be able to speak in a strong voice. A silence spell or a gag spoils the incantation (and thus the spell). A spellcaster who has been deafened has a 20% chance of spoiling any spell with a verbal component that he tries to cast

What exactly is important to say within the verbal component? Is it just mutterings tied to actually casting a spell? Do you have to say exactly what you're cursing them with?

Could you, say, cast Bestow Curse, saying whatever verbal parts you need, then declaring you are cursing them with X, but in your head, intend for Y to happen? Which would take precedence?

It's not language dependent, but my confusion is based around the verbal bit.

[wraithstrike]

It does not really matter to be honest, and there is no rule for it. It is only important for mechanical purposes that you are not restrained from speaking. You can decide if the affect of the curse itself is spoken or just desired if you want to get really technical and tie another rule to it.

[Mikaze]

Yep. It's basically whatever you think is most fitting.

Do you want to speak eldritch words beyond your target's ken? Or do you want to ham it up and go Maleficent on them instead?

[Starglim]

Like other spells, you have to speak all of the correct magic words in a strong voice, easily recognisable to those who know about magic (have ranks in Spellcraft).

It's up to your GM if a curse spoken in Common works. If it does, logically it should contain all the meaning required to control the spell, and if you say something different than you intend, the thing spoken will happen, just as a spell spoken in the primal language of wizardry would.