Is it possible for people to prophesy more or less accurately?

Summary:

It may be possible for people to prophecy more or less accurately something. 

This would not necessarily mean that the message would end up being false, as the right spirit of the message could still be communicated, but that it could end up being less precise in the words communicated than originally intended, thus lacking definition.

The process in which someone is described as ending up prophesying may leave room for human freedom to potentially not be precise in the delivering of the message, as could be inferred in some clues such as:

- People can have the ability to decide how they prophesy something heard.

- A prophet can prophesy words that another person "reported" to them.

All these clues may open the possibility for a prophecy to end up being communicated more or less accurately.

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More or less accurate would not necessarily mean false:

Things prophesied can be true... but also false.

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Things prophesied can be true or false:
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To prophesy less accurately would not necessarily mean that someone would be prophesying falsely. 

To prophesy with a varying degree of accuracy can make the prophecy to be communicated in a higher or lower definition (that is, with more or less precision), but it does not necessarily mean that the prophecy communicated would end up being actually false. 

The right spirit of the message could still be communicated, even though the specific words used to convey that message may have lacked precision.

This can be consistent with the fact that prophecies can also be understood according to the spirit of the message that they are trying to convey.

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How can the language used in prophecies be understood?:
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People can have the ability to decide how they prophesy something heard:

People can have the ability to decide how they prophesy something heard.

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People can have the ability to decide how or when or if they prophesy something heard:
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If people can have this ability, then it would follow that they can have the ability to prophesy more or less accurately, which can end up in them actually prophesying more or less accurately. 

A prophet can prophesy words that another person "reported" to them:

A prophet can end up prophesying the words that another person REPORTED to them.

For example, Moses as a prophet had to prophesy to Pharaoh, and so "the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, I have made you a god to Pharaoh, and AARON your brother WILL BE YOUR PROPHET. And you will say to him all, as many (things) as I command you. AND AARON your brother WILL SPEAK to Pharaoh" (Exodus 7:1-2). 

In this example, Moses was told to say to Pharaoh as many things as he was commanded, but this, through his brother Aaron (who would speak for Moses). Moses thus had to report the words he was commanded to speak to Aaron, as it is written: "MOSES REPORTED TO AARON ALL THE WORDS of the LORD, which He sent, and all the signs which He commanded to him" (Exodus 4:28). 

In principle, it could not be impossible for someone to report some words to the other person a bit less accurately than others (by choosing for example to not report all the exact words commanded).

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