diff --git a/sips/pending/_posts/2016-01-11-static-members.md b/sips/pending/_posts/2016-01-11-static-members.md
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--- a/sips/pending/_posts/2016-01-11-static-members.md
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@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ There is no special syntax proposed to access these members, they are accessed a
 
 For example:
 
-```scala
 {% highlight scala %}
 class Foo
 
@@ -42,12 +41,10 @@ object Foo {
 println(Foo.x)
 println(Foo.bar(12))
 {% endhighlight %}
-```
 
 Intuitively, the presence of the `@static` annotation ensures that a field/method is declared as a static member of the companion class.
 For the JVM, the above would therefore look to other Java code as if it had been declared with the following Java code:
 
-```java
 {% highlight java %}
 class Foo {
   public static int x = 5;
@@ -56,12 +53,10 @@ class Foo {
   }
 }
 {% endhighlight %}
-```
 
 In Scala.js, the `@static` annotation has no semantic effect in Scala objects, as they are not visible from JavaScript anyway (it could be used for optimizations).
 It has a semantic effect on Scala.js-defined JS classes, for example:
 
-```scala
 {% highlight scala %}
 @ScalaJSDefined
 class Foo extends js.Object
@@ -72,11 +67,9 @@ object Foo extends js.Object {
   @static def bar(y: Int): Int = x + y
 }
 {% endhighlight %}
-```
 
 would look to JavaScript code as if it had been declared with the following JavaScript code:
 
-```javascript
 {% highlight javascript %}
 class Foo extends Object {
   static bar(y) {
@@ -85,13 +78,11 @@ class Foo extends Object {
 }
 Foo.x = 5; // in ES6, there is no declarative syntax for static fields yet
 {% endhighlight %}
-```
 
 ## Comparison with mirror classes ##
 
 Scalac currently generates static forwarders for fields and methods in top-level objects:
 
-```scala
 {% highlight scala %}
 object O {
   val d = 1 
@@ -100,7 +91,6 @@ object O {
   }
 }
 {% endhighlight %}
-```
 
 Under the proposed scheme users will be able to opt-in to have the field `f` defined in the inner object `I` emited as a static field. 
 In case `O.d` is annotated with `@static` the field will be crated as a static field `d` in `class O`.