I would get worse than blank stares from some folk if I said the Japanese name, though. I'd get instant, "Some of her Japanese shit. Not interested," turn-off.

Wanna hear my extra-special snobbishness? I refuse to call it "Kuro." I tell myself I wouldn't abbreviate "Black" if it were Black Butler, would I? I'd call it BB if I needed to abbreviate it. My personal abbreviation for it has long been KSS, actually.